The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the...

This paper tests the external spillover effects of the transportation on China’s economic growth from the theoretical and the empirical perspectives. Based on a logarithm production model, this study first proves the existence of the positive externality in the transportation. After that, the...

In this paper we propose a novel method to identify the conditional average treatment effect partial derivative (ATEPD) in an environment in which the treatment is endogenous, the treatment effect is heterogeneous, the candidate “instrumental variables” can be correlated with latent errors,...

Increased commuting time due to traffic congestion is a common problem in almost all major cities in the world. The increase in commuting hours not only results in environmental pollution and personal health problems, but also has a negative impact on women's labor supply. This paper first...

Natural resources and government debt are integral to sustainable development. This paper presents an empirical study of the direct impact of natural resources on government debt, as well as the heterogeneity and impact mechanism. With cross-country panel data of 151 countries and regions from...

Center for China Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Department of Economics, Geborg University, Sweden

The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the...