shown the opposite in the product market. This article argues that as the rent from China’s product market has been squeezed …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

-wave census-type panel data in 18 villages in rural western China, two identification strategies, instrumental variable and …

-61, and employ a novel data set, the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), to explore the intergenerational legacy of early …