diaspora foreign firms in China that are controlled by overseas Chinese whose surnames are used to infer their lineage group … enforcement. Our findings are robust to various robustness checks and we find no such effects with China's accession to WTO as …

production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms …

paper uses the exposure of 16-year-old cohorts to an exogenous elimination of export quotas to explore the short …-run schooling consequence of destination-specific export expansions and the longer-run effects on adult outcomes. We find that … export expansions to rich-country markets resulted in substantially higher high school enrollment rates. The expansions …