Childhood obesity in China has been increasingly cited as a major public health issue in recent decades. Although grandparents are more likely than other guardians to spoil grandchildren by feeding them more food and limiting their physical activity, the effect of grandparents on...

We apply a two-wave nationwide correspondence experiment to assess the effects of the two-child and three-child policies on employment discrimination against women in China’s labor market. Using 13,751 observations collected through this experiment, we find that the announcement of the...

This paper explores a puzzle in China's innovation performance, where innovation output experienced a sharp turnaround in 2018 despite the rising technology market and R&D investment by Chinese firms. We investigate the impact of three rounds of tariffs imposed during the U.S.-China trade war on...

In China's regulated housing markets, a married couple may strategically choose to divorce in order to purchase more houses and/or purchase with more favorable leverages. Our study examines the strategic divorce behavior induced by two major types of housing market regulations in China, quota...

Economic theory suggests that relative payoff scheme in a society might govern the allocation of talent to productive and unproductive activities. This paper provides empirical evidence by showing how China's recent anti-corruption campaign reshapes people's preference for bureaucratic jobs by...