Although previous research has demonstrated the health benefits of water treatment programs, relatively little is known about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a major drinking water treatment program started in...

Over the last three decades, China's product, labor, and capital markets have become gradually more integrated within its borders, although integration has been significantly slower for capital markets. There remains a significant urban-rural divide, and Chinese cities tend to be under-sized by...

The author points out that property rights of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) display large cross-sectional and time-series variations. In the 1980s, Chinese SOE managers faced firm-specific profit-retention rates, had alternative production decision rights and discretion in employee wage...