This paper examines the impact of religious belief on the trust in central and local governments among Chinese people, based on micro-level data from a recent national representative survey. To mitigate problems of endogeneity, we use instrument variable (IV) regression with the number of...

The influence of religious beliefs on investment is interesting and important in literature. We use a large dataset with detailed information on the worship places of the five largest religious groups in China to study the relationship between local religious beliefs and individual financial...

This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard components of expenditure and revenue assignments and institutions for intergovernmental transfers, as well as the nature of subnational authorities over general economic activity....

For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed - the addition of newly cultivated land in China through land...

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality in China. We attempt to answer two questions. First, does inequality of after-transfer income narrow, compared to that of before-transfer income? Second, given the scale and...

Using the data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) in 2002, 2007, and 2013, this chapter examines the effects of a series of social policy reforms on the economic distance between the rich and poor in each of the urban, rural, and migrant household sectors. We find that over the years...