This paper examines the long-term effects of health insurance on children’s educational and health outcomes in developing countries. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China, we find that exposure to the health insurance program in early...

This study investigates the causal effect of older siblings’ schooling on their younger siblings’ schooling and labor market outcomes by exploiting the temporal and geographical variations in the implementation of compulsory schooling laws in China. Reform exposure is quantified as the...

This paper investigates the daily labor supply decision of Hangzhou cabdrivers. We find that Hangzhou cabdrivers' wage elasticity is significantly positive, their working decisions are largely affected by shift time, and crude proxy variables for income and hours targets could hardly explain...

This paper employs a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the causal effect of exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic on interpersonal trust in China. Using a nationally representative panel survey, we find that COVID-19 exposure led to a decrease in the levels of generalized trust. We also...

This paper examines peer effects among graduate students in a Chinese university. We implement a quasi-experiment empirical strategy and find that a student's master GPA is positively associated with his roommates' college GPA. Our results exclude the possibilities that the peer effects are...