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 …

Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …

concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study, we use data from a two-year field experiment in rural China to define …