Since the early 21st century, air quality concerns in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have garnered significant attention from both the public authorities and society. This study investigates the effects of digital environmental monitoring technology on air pollution. Specifically, we...

Guo et al. (2023) examine the impact of early-life experiences of politicians on their policy implementations. They utilize differential exposure of Chinese county party secretaries to the Great Famine of 1959-1961 as a natural experiment and investigate the impact on their policy preferences,...

Since the early 21st century, air quality concerns in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have garnered significant attention from both the public authorities and society. This study investigates the effects of digital environmental monitoring technology on air pollution. Specifically, we...

This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker's rational criminal theory, we suggest that Fintech development could mitigate theft activities by increasing the earnings from legitimate work, relaxing potential criminals'...

Government Information disclosure (GID) is an important part of Chinese efforts in improving doing-business environment. Based on the sample of China's listed enterprises, this paper studies the effect of government information disclosure on enterprise investment efficiency. We find that GID...

This study investigates the influence of mobile payment application use on crime rates. Using a unique database of verdicts from criminal courts in China and an index measuring the extent of mobile payment usage, we find that a one standard deviation increase in mobile payment adoption and usage...

Postal service has become an important channel for drug trafficking worldwide. This paper examines the impact of the real-name mailing regulation on drug use in a Chinese province. Based on the universe of drug arrest, the difference-in-differences analysis shows that after the implementation of...