This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …

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

We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both … countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of … follows that the cost of living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare the cost …

The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones. We review … than an output-weighted measure of GDP. Taking all these together, we estimate that real per-capita GDP in China was 50 …