The Key Cities for Air Pollution Control (KCAPC) program is one of China’s earliest and most important target-based environmental policies, launched in 2002 to address the country’s severe air pollution issue. However, the effectiveness of the program is still largely unexplored, as the...

China implemented the environmental cadre evaluation (ECE) policy at the end of 2005, elevating environmental priority to the top tier in the cadre evaluation system. This paper theoretically and empirically examines the labor market effect of the ECE policy in China, with a focus on...

Nearly everyone experiences the death of a parent in adulthood, but little is known about the effects of parental death on adult children's labor market outcomes and the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we utilize Danish administrative data to examine the effects of losing a parent on...