Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Impacts on regional economic growth -- 2. Regional characteristics and the impacts of foreign direct investment on China's regional economic growth -- 3. The interregional impacts of foreign direct investment on China's inland economic growth -- Part II...

It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher...

We use a highly-controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases on redistribution decisions, in an environment where the income inequality that may be created with wage changes is kept fixed. First, we investigate the role of a decreasing wage compared to one's...