and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …

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 …

induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …

In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result …

and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on … exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal …

government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how United … laws restricting county spending encourage privatization, whereas strong public unions discourage it. The evidence is … by political patronage and taxpayer resistance to government spending in the privatization decision …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …