This paper studies how centralizing environmental administration affected air pollution in China. China launched a vertical administration reform in 2016 to empower upper-level Environmental Protection Bureaus to administer lower-level bureaus vertically through personnel control. Exploiting a...

The Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (MLG) system is functioned as the last resort safety net for China's urban poor people and plays a substantial role in poverty reduction. Over the past few years, reforms have been taken to increase the benefit levels and to provide minimum income protection for...

This study constructs a competitive school district housing market model, ascertains the impact of reform in public school assignment rules on families’ school choice behavior, and investigates the impact of a multi-school dicing reform conducted in Beijing’s Haidian District in April 2018....