This paper studies how centralizing environmental administration affected air pollution in China. China launched a vertical administration reform in 2016 to empower upper-level Environmental Protection Bureaus to administer lower-level bureaus vertically through personnel control. Exploiting a...

We study how centralized control over local bureaucratic agencies helps alleviate the enforcement problem of environment protection policies in China, exploiting a reform that empowers upper-level environmental protection bureaus to administrate lower-level bureaus vertically through personnel...

This paper draws on a natural experiment generated by the Key Tax Source (KTS) supervision in China to evaluate the impact of strengthening tax administration on firm's emission behavior. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design, we find that KTS supervision by State Administration of...

The Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (MLG) system is functioned as the last resort safety net for China's urban poor people and plays a substantial role in poverty reduction. Over the past few years, reforms have been taken to increase the benefit levels and to provide minimum income protection for...