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 …

pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …

This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer … use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out … forms of water pollution, suggesting that industrialization has induced pollution in China both directly and through its …

With the decline of the traditional hukou system, migrants in China have a broad set of cities to choose from. Within …

We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more …