China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China … important factor for the oversupply of residential housing units in China …

We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both … countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of … follows that the cost of living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare the cost …

We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …

tremendous growth in sales---over 200 percent from 2008 to 2015---and concerns over local air quality have prompted China … behavior to China's largest national subsidy program for fuel efficient vehicles during 2010 and 2011. Using variation from the …

We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the ex- tent and consequences of … to land institutions in rural China that disproportionately constrain the more productive farmers. These frictions reduce … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers …