exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign … privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that …

this paper we examine the impact of China's opium legalization on the quantity and price of British opium exports from … India to China during the 19th century. We find little evidence that legalization increased exports or decreased price. Thus …, the evidence suggests China's opium prohibition had a minimal impact on opium consumption …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

scholargeneral that suppressed the deadliest civil war in history, the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). We construct comprehensive …

household choice of children's quantity versus quality. The setting is in Anhui Province, China over the 13th to 20th centuries …

China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are … transmitted across generations. During the Cultural Revolution, China's college admission system based on entrance exams was …

with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … in China became weaker over time …

in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in …

affect how communities confronted two well-studied historical episodes from the early years of the People's Republic of China …