middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of … in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across …

We use the short-lived, but high-profile, China Top Brand Award to examine the causal effects of nonmonetary awards on … firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China …