in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China …

the government set up to shape the business environment of private firms. Focusing on China during its crucial two decades … educated, with more diverse sectoral experiences. Market competition increased over time, especially after China's World Trade …

about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a … for local educational policies and resources, village dummies, and distance of villages to schools, and by instrumenting … from having access to treated water. The program can account for the gender gap in educational attainment in rural China in …

major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results … show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a shock-hit household on average falls short of its normal income trajectory … on richer families by borrowing from them, our political economy model predicts that the outcome of village elections …