second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …

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

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … households. Both cross-regional and household-level evidence supports this hypothesis. This factor can potentially account for … about half of the actual increase in the household savings rate during 1990-2007 …