This paper exploits a tax reform on manufacturing firms in China to study the impact of taxes on firm innovation. The … innovation. Moreover, the reform has a bigger impact on firms that are financially constrained and firms that engage more in tax …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …

Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …

regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … with two alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration …

We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of … insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second, what explains the low takeup rate of formal insurance, despite …

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … participation and democracy in China, increased trust in government officials, and a more skeptical view of free markets …

to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …