This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Informing the analysis is an unusually rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC...

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA) program is decomposed into its direct and...

This paper examines minimum wage effects on workers' wages in China's ethnic minority urban areas using publicly available minimum wage data combined with proprietary household data. The identification strategy relies on a recent estimator developed in Powell (2015) capable of studying the...

We adopt a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). In our analysis we use a rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC from 2004 to 2007....