This paper studies the labor market consequences of elite education in China, examines the relative importance of elite … education and parental background, and sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the impacts of elite education on labor market … exploiting a discontinuity in elite university admissions eligibility that exists around college entrance exam cutoff scores. We …

China's overseas energy projects have expanded significantly in the last decade. While there is considerable literature … on energy-related construction contracts and ownership of power generation projects, China's power grid investments have …, which cut across provinces in host countries. This paper examines the State Grid Corporation of China's (SGCC) investment …

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war … and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …

contributed to the end of state weakness in early medieval China that initially resulted from entrenched landowning interests and … similar barbarian invasions at similar times led to political fragmentation in Europe but further state consolidation in China …

and the public because of the strategic roles played by the former in policy processes. We use China as a case study …