From year to year, the surety bonds (insurance guarantees) are becoming a more and more popular form of securing receivables of business entities, which is caused by many economic and legal factors. Increasingly, an alternative to civil liability insurance or bills is usually required by law for...

Little is known about how children of high-income expatriate families, often from rich nations, adapt to temporary residence in a severely polluted city of the developing world. We use a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate...