mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …

public elementary education we provide evidence that in 2008 local election, just some months after the publication of the … 2005 to 2007 increased by around 5 percentage points the probability of re-election. This effect is even greater in …

comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …

We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural … election appear in the mid-1800s, and grow notably larger when we restrict the sample to later years. We also analyze …

improve the quality of politicians running for election …