This paper analyzes the 2020 election, focusing on voters, not political money, and emphasizing the importance of economic geography. Drawing extensively on county election returns, it analyzes how spatial factors combined with industrial structures to shape the outcome. It treats COVID 19’s...

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data to analyse the returns to upper secondary vocational education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary...

In this paper, we apply Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) method, which deals with a continuous treatment variable, to estimate the returns to education in China from 2010 to 2017. Results are compared with OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation, as well as estimates from...

We examine whether economic links with major customers, an important group of strong stakeholders, act as a deterrent to corporate misconduct. We show that firms with a concentrated customer base are less likely to commit misconduct and face lower penalties. These findings hold with numerous...

Using Glassdoor data we show that women are less satisfied at work than men and that female and male employees differ in their workplace preferences. In particular, female employees care more about work-life balance but this difference vanishes at the manager level, illustrating the role of...

Revealing the temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) requires a high-precision and reliability baseline estimate of SOC, but the accuracy of the SOC estimates is largely dominated by the model-calibrating approaches and the sample size used to training the models. In this study, we...

Standard public goods games often assign group members the same marginal per capita returns to public goods production, but in reality group members facing differential individual returns often must collaborate to produce a public good. This paper uses a laboratory experiment to investigate the...

In a randomized controlled trial involving hundreds of university students, we provide relative performance feedback specifically designed to reduce low performers' demoralization, by dynamically assigning students to small leaderboard groups that share a similar score in a semester-long online...