, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with … massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations … comparison group design, this study is, to our knowledge, the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that …

China implemented the environmental cadre evaluation (ECE) policy at the end of 2005, elevating environmental priority … of the ECE policy in China, with a focus on bureaucratic incentives of promotion and collusion. We find that the ECE …. Particularly, based on a large firm-level data set from China's manufacturing sector, we estimate that sulfur dioxide (SO2 …

. However, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms …, associated massive lay-offs, and accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact … group design. To our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that retraining …

This paper uses data from an employee tracking survey in China for about 6000 incumbent workers to document their …