We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …

This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …

Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are …

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …