Recent work by Xiaobo Zhang
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Community networks and the growth of private enterprise in China
Social networks substituted for legally enforced contracts between firms and paved the way for entrepreneurs to flourish
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Relationship between the Chinese housing and marriage markets
An unfavourable ratio of young men to young women could explain simultaneously skyrocketing housing prices and rising home ownership
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Home ownership as status competition
The high ratio of men to women in the marriage market helps explain why homeownership in China has increased despite skyrocketing house prices
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The great Chinese inequality turnaround
Sharply increasing inequality became an integral part of the narrative on Chinese development since the beginning of the reform process in 1978. Over the past decade, however, many studies have argued that inequality has been plateauing, or even decl...