Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

This paper exploits a tax reform on manufacturing firms in China to study the impact of taxes on firm innovation. The …

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

to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of …

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … participation and democracy in China, increased trust in government officials, and a more skeptical view of free markets …

regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Aerosol …