doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate …. Our identification strategy relies on both the suddenness of the opening of China and on a key feature of scientific …

-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and India with advanced degrees are significantly associated with declines in …

"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some … induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China"--National Bureau of Economic …

China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …

In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …

To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital … foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell. China is unique in that foreigners pay much less than domestic investors …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign … privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that …