diaspora foreign firms in China that are controlled by overseas Chinese whose surnames are used to infer their lineage group … enforcement. Our findings are robust to various robustness checks and we find no such effects with China's accession to WTO as …

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

Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition … subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which …

air pollution would be higher if the hidden costs of air pollution on SWB in China are taken into account. … satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and …

" blood plasma in exchange for cash rewards in China. We do so using two primary data sets: the first is a three-wave, census …

entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with minimal barriers to entry. Using a cashmere sweater cluster in China … accessible for small entrepreneurs widely available in rural China, even without a well functioning capital market. The observed …