into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and then we test their empirical relevance using data from the China …

I examine the activity of political elites during a period of intensive state-building in pre-imperial China. Using a …

formation in China in the 1990s. Consistently with a simple model of migration-oriented investment and disinvestment in higher … reinforces prospects of development in China. We also find that changes in relative labor supply resulted from net outflow …