may affect policy learning and policy outcomes. We aim to describe and understand China's policy experimentation since … conducted in China over the past four decades. We find three main results. First, more than 80% of the experiments exhibit … national policies originating from the experimentation. Taken together, these results suggest that while China's bureaucratic …

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new …

Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist … introduces the chapters comprising the NBER volume Capitalizing China (Fan and Morck, eds. 2012), which examine China's high … consider policy alternatives the CCP might consider if its goal is China's elevation into the ranks of high income countries …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that …