Guo et al. (2023) examine the impact of early-life experiences of politicians on their policy implementations. They utilize differential exposure of Chinese county party secretaries to the Great Famine of 1959-1961 as a natural experiment and investigate the impact on their policy preferences,...

This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker's rational criminal theory, we suggest that Fintech development could mitigate theft activities by increasing the earnings from legitimate work, relaxing potential criminals'...

A recipient of a good deed might repay it to others, instead of to the original donor. We use a lab experiment with naturally-occurring social connections to investigate whether and how the social connection between the donor and the third-party beneficiary spillover to affect the recipient's...