Since China's implementation of the One-Child Policy in the late 1970s, more than 150 million only children have been born and are often stigmatized with negative stereotypes that are not applied to children with siblings. In this study, we investigate the impact of trustor and trustee...

Using data from a nationwide donation program and a follow-up survey, this paper examines how social distance induced by the geographic distance between donors and recipients and the capability to give measured by donor income affect the amount of charitable giving conditional on giving...

We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility) or where one works (place flexibility), and offering different...

We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, as well as survey and observational data for the same job seekers. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility)...

Using Chinese Household Income Project survey data from 2013, this paper investigates the effects of family size and birth order on children's educational attainment. The endogeneity of family size is an important identification issue in the test of the quantity-quality tradeoff. We use...

Job seekers’ expectations about labor market prospects are crucial in determining their search behavior and outcomes in search models, yet clear empirical evidence is lacking. We conduct a large-scale information-provision experiment on a job board to analyze the causal impact of beliefs about...