data from three household surveys. All come from China, a country where providers are paid fee-for-service according to a …

In 2003, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural residents. We combine … differences-in-differences with matching methods to obtain impact estimates, using data collected from program administrators …

, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with … massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations …. This study uses survey data from the two large industrial cities Shenyang and Wuhan, covering the period 1998 to 2000, to …

Is there evidence from China's pre-WTO accession period that newly imposed U.S. or EU import restrictions deflect … Chinese exports to third markets? We examine this question by drawing on a newly constructed data set of U.S. and EU product … exports surging to third markets. To the contrary, there is weak evidence of a chilling effect on China's exports to third …

This paper explores the impact of the emergence of China and India on Foreign Capital Stocks (FCS) in other economies …. Using bilateral FCS data from 1990-2003 and drawing from the Knowledge-Capital Model of multinational enterprises to control … for fundamental determinants of FCS across countries, the evidence suggests that the impact of foreign capital in China …

contributor to China's explosive growth. …

hampered by weak measures of environmental stringency and by insufficient data to estimate variation in firm response by … joint ventures (EJVs) in China. Beginning with a theoretical framework of firm production and abatement decisions, we derive … and estimate a location choice model using data on a sample of EJV projects, Chinese effective levies on water pollution …

use village- and household-level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal reform …

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

applies these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over …