This study estimated energy, environmental and consumer economic impacts of U.S. Federal residential energy efficiency standards that became effective in the 1988-2001 period or will take effect by the end of 2007. These standards have been the subject of in-depth analyses conducted as part of...

The impact of political experience on corporate innovation is well studied, however no one has studied the impact of political intensity on innovation. This paper constructs an index of the intensity of political connection and explores the nonlinear impact of political connections on corporate...

This paper explores the nonlinear impact of political connections on corporate innovation by constructing an index of the intensity of political connection using a dataset of A-share listed firms over the period 2008-2017. Results show that the intensity of political connection has an inverted...

In this chapter, using selected rural samples of the CHIP 2002 and CHIP 2013 surveys that cover a total of fourteen provinces, we focus on income and poverty differentiation among Chinese ethnic minorities and changes over time in atypical ethnic regions, that is, outside of China's five...

This paper studies the effects of rural infrastructure development on agricultural production technical efficiency, using data from the second agricultural census of China. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, this paper first estimates agricultural production technical efficiency of each...