This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in … 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions … with higher per capita food production that year suffered higher famine mortality rates, a surprising reversal of a …

This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …