Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately … concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study, we use data from a two-year field experiment in rural China to define … model that includes the forces that are known to be determinants of insurance demand, provide reduced form confirmation of …

consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …

. Electricity distribution is the canonical example of a natural monopoly. Randomized price offers show that demand for electricity … levels, suggesting that residential electrification may reduce social welfare. We discuss how leakage, reduced demand (due to …

Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL … requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL … reputation and more online food sales before FSL tend to display their FSL license earlier on the platform, and buyers are more …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a …

The overuse of medical services including antibiotics is often blamed on Physician Induced Demand. But since this … all of these treatments reduce antibiotics prescriptions, suggesting that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by …

middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured …

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

plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …