Leamer and McManus applied Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) in an empirical study of the deterrent effects of capital punishment and other penalties. Their analysis has questioned the validity of the deterrence hypothesis. The thrust of our paper is twofold: first, by applying EBA to well-known...

This study examines the determinants of rural-urban migration paying special attention to the role of human capital externalities in the rural sector. Using data from a well-known household survey in China, we find that in rural areas human capital externalities have a discouraging effect on...

Following Rauch's (1993) seminal study, there has been a growing interest among economists in estimating human capital externalities at the individual level. In this paper, we provide a first set of estimates of the external returns to education in Chinese cities. We find that the external...

We examine the impact of China's hukou system, which is an institution controlling population movement, on social and economic outcomes at the individual level. Using data from a recent Chinese household survey, we find that people who obtained urban hukou late in their lives fared significantly...

This paper analyzes the roles of human capital and political capital in income determination, and the determinants of investment in these two types of capital in China. Political capital is treated as a distinct form of capital, which is accumulated through investment and commands a return. The...

We investigate empirically whether foreign direct investment generates externalities in the form of technology transfer. Using data on 29 manufacturing industries over the period from 1993 to 1998 in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China, we find that foreign direct investment has large...

We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...