What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for … successes and the problems arising from local government activity in China …

China's four-trillion-yuan stimulus package fueled by bank loans in 2009 has led to the rapid growth of shadow banking …

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

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …

from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …

public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school …