The Qing Period (1644–1911) has been recognised as one of the most important eras in China's demographic history. However, factors that determined and contributed to the rise in the Qing population have remained unclear. Most works so far have only speculated at what might have caused the...

The connection between court resources and judicial behavior has long been acknowledged. This article examines the linkages between local governments’ fiscal pressures and Chinese judges’ decisions on financial sanctions. Based on data from criminal verdicts of official corruption and county...

Based on the bribery judgment of first instance that was published by the Chinese court in 2014, we conduct the first empirical study of the relationships among the ranks of corrupt officials, legal institutional design and corruption punishment. When analyzing only the relationship between the...

This study investigates the effect of cohort crowding on educational attainment and labor market performance by employing discontinuities in schooling cohort size induced by China’s Compulsory Education Law. Similar to other developing countries, China has education supply constraints even in...

R2 and adjusted R2 may exaggerate a model's true ability to predict the dependent variable in the presence of overfitting, whereas leave-one-out R2 (LOOR2) is robust to overfitting. We demonstrate this by replicating 279 regressions from 100 papers in top economics journals, where the median...

Synthetic Control Method (SCM) is a popular approach for causal inference in panel data, where the optimal weights for control units are often sparse. But the sparsity of SCM has received little attention in the literature except Abadie (2021), which explores the sparsity from the perspective of...

The ag-biotech industry underwent considerable consolidation in the last decade in part to take advantage of economics of scale and scope. The paper investigates the impact of such consolidation on inventive activity at the firm level. Careful attention is paid to the role of firm size,...