We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the … returns to higher education in China. We find that the mean years of education increased by roughly one full year around the …

direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring … conditional on controlling for initial selection, SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ firms, on average … productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate with distance …