This paper examines the impact of rising U.S.-China geopolitical tensions on three main dimensions of science: STEM … productivity in each country. We examine each dimension from a "U.S." perspective and from a "China" perspective in an effort to … not appear to affect the average productivity of China-based researchers as measured by publications, heightened anti …

regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Aerosol …

either limited or strong scope for quality differentiation. Using customs data for China during 2002-2006, we empirically …

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we …

supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …

This paper presents a simple model of how a small open economy can undervalue its real exchange rate using its capital …

We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is …. Some local political economy traits such as the time the local Chinese Communist Party leader has been in office are …We also investigate the quality of the two most prominent house price indexes in China, and conclude that a traditional …

outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …

As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …

all of these treatments reduce antibiotics prescriptions, suggesting that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by …