We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is … correlated with land supply volume.We also investigate the quality of the two most prominent house price indexes in China, and … markets in China. Repeat sales indexes have become standard in many countries, but they are not as useful in emerging markets …

With the decline of the traditional hukou system, migrants in China have a broad set of cities to choose from. Within …

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 …

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in … of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development … three major seaports in China, closure of zones reduced firm-level TFP by 9.62%, whereas closure of zones farther away did … locational heterogeneity. We conclude that China's strategy of using development zones as a place-based policy to encourage …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …