China's economic reforms over the past 40 years have led to a mixed economic structure with the government playing a …

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic …

The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four …'s approach to reform is similar to that in several East European countries. It differs in having started with a major price …

As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …

. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …