The end of the promotion tournament is rarely the end of the road. Thus, it is important to study whether middle-level managers sustain efforts after getting passed over for promotion. Using 2,792 manager-year observations between 2014 and 2018 from a large telecom service provider in China, our...

This study comprehensively examines export tariff liberalization’s influence on women’s marital and fertility decisions in China, using accession to the WTO as a natural experiment. Our identification relies on the shift-share design that combines industry-level variation in export tariff...

The subjectivity contained in personal information in the context of big data makes it theoretically justified in private regulations. However, the changes in social structure and a series of data paradoxes caused by new technologies such as big data make traditional private law principles...

While microplastics (MPs) in lakeshore sediments are widely reported, few studies have investigated distributions of MPs in surface sediments from lakeshores to the center of lakes. For the first time, data on the distribution of MPs in surface sediments from lakeshores to the center in a river...

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have created immeasurable health and economic crises, leading to unprecedented disruptions to world trade and supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic shows diverse impacts on different economies and markets that suffer and recover at different rates...