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China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance … democracies are more likely to import surveillance AI from China. This bias is not observed in AI imports from the US or in … imports of other frontier technologies from China. Third, autocracies and weak democracies are especially more likely to …
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While there is a vast body of research on the benefits of FDI in developing countries, whether and how the form of FDI matters have received limited attention. In this paper, we study the impact of FDI via quid pro quo (technology for market access) on facilitating knowledge spillover and...
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ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world--we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …
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1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for the construction of technologically advanced … know-how, while others were eventually realized by China alone using domestic technology. We find that receiving both …
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Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …
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factor costs, China's economic geography as it influences trade costs, as well as the degree of regional diversity in … China in the 19th century were relatively low …
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country using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China. The NCEE is one of the most important … institutions in China and affects hundreds of millions of families. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in temperature … earnings of students …
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in China has approximately quadrupled in the last 6 years. The size of entering classes of new students and total student …This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the …
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We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …
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