transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …

data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on student achievement, I perform a … find that a lower accountability grade decreases teacher turnover and increases joining teachers' quality. A likely channel … is that accountability pressures induce increases in principal effort at lower-graded schools, especially among high …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …

, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing …, fueling a real estate bubble; and that China's seemingly highly effective macroeconomic stimulus package may well have induced …

This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …