Can temporary policy interventions have permanent effects on regional industrial development? Exploiting disaggregated data on industrial construction in China before 1978 under the centrally planned economic system, this paper compares the long-term development of industries that received...

Can temporary policy interventions have permanent effects on regional industrial development? This paper exploits disaggregated data on industrial construction under the centrally planned economic system in China before 1978 and compares the long-term development of industries with positive...

The food availability decline and Sen's entitlement are two leading hypotheses for the causation of famine. Previous research based on case studies has given independent support to each of the accounts. This paper analyses the Chinese famine of 1959-61 by jointly considering entitlement...