China has high rates of antibiotic abuse and antibiotic resistance but the causes are still a matter for debate. Strong … incentives are the main driver of antibiotic abuse in China, at least in the young and healthy population we draw on in our study. …

Unreliable inputs to production, particularly those that are difficult to store, can significantly limit firms … response to electricity scarcity, Chinese firms re-optimize among inputs to production by substituting materials for energy … (both electric and non-electric sources)—a shift from “make” to “buy” of intermediate inputs to production. While …

entail parochial problems? Making use of primary survey data covering two election cycles in a mountainous area of China …

We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Using detailed micro-level data and an …

Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

We examine the role of agricultural productivity as a determinant of China's post-reform economic growth and sectoral …

reform in rural China on different categories of household expenditure, including spending on individual children. Using pre …

We estimate the wage premium associated with having a cadre parent in China using a recent survey of college graduates …