Based on a county-level monthly panel data from four provinces and a province-level monthly panel data from 21 provinces from 2009 to 2015, we use the regression discontinuity method to examine the impacts of the tired pricing reform implemented in July 2012 on residential electricity use in...

With no dependable and reasonably priced electricity, the vehicles that steer industrial productivity and other essential socioeconomic activities will remain redundant. But for an economy as large as China, the task of electricity price reform will require a balance of conflicting socioeconomic...