Measuring the impact of a home visiting programme on child skills A home visiting programme substantially improves the language, cognitive, fine motor and socioemotional skills of left-behind children in rural China Education James Heckman Bei Liu Mai Lu Jin Zhou Published 28.09.20
International friends and enemies As countries become greater economic friends in terms of the welfare effects of their productivity growth, they become greater political friends in terms of United Nations voting and strategic rivalries. Trade Benny Kleinman Ernest Liu Stephen Redding Published 14.09.20
Subsidising stability: State employment in China China uses state-owned enterprises to promote social stability by employing high-risk groups when unrest threats emerge Institutions & Political Economy Jaya Wen Published 28.08.20
Subsidy policies and insurance demand Subsidy policies combined with financial education can generate learning from experiences and promote long-run insurance take-up Finance Jing Cai Alain De Janvry Elisabeth Sadoulet Published 14.08.20
Social ties and ‘hometown favouritism’ towards local officials in China Hometown auditors report lower suspicious expenditures, implying that social ties are associated with greater leniency Institutions & Political Economy Raymond Fisman Yongxiang Wang Jian Chu Songtao Tan Published 12.06.20
From fog to smog: The value of pollution information China’s air quality monitoring and disclosure programme triggered a cascade of changes in household behaviour with significant health benefits Energy & Environment Panle Jia Barwick Shanjun Li Liguo Lin Eric Zou Published 24.02.20
The impact of intranational trade barriers on exports: Evidence from a nationwide VAT rebate reform in China Rising local protectionism reduces interprovincial trade and manufacturing exports, and increases ’inward-looking’ sourcing by local intermediaries Trade Jie Bai Jiahua Liu Published 19.02.20
Going green in China: Firms’ responses to stricter environmental regulations Firms are reactive to better enforcement of emission controls. This effect is more apparent among firms in industries with higher pollution intensity Energy & Environment Haichao Fan Joshua Graff Zivin Zonglai Kou Xueyue Liu Huanhuan Wang Published 10.02.20
China’s 2009 VAT reform and lumpy investment behaviour Tax policies that reduce firm inaction are more effective at stimulating investment than policies that simply lower the cost of investment Firms Zhao Chen Xian Jiang Zhikuo Liu Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato Daniel Yi Xu Published 13.01.20
