Housing and land prices in China have experienced dramatic hikes over the past decade or two. Moreover, housing and …

We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is …We also investigate the quality of the two most prominent house price indexes in China, and conclude that a traditional … hedonic index more accurately reflects how house prices have changed over time in eight major markets in China. Repeat sales …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North-China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of … polarizing in China …

convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

migration on China's spatial development and aggregate growth during the 1990s and 2000s. We find that initial conditions across … and aggregate growth in China. Changes in international trade costs and mobility restrictions during the 1990s and 2000s …