Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits,…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
The relationship between the US and China is at the core of both economic and geopolitical trends that will define the future of Asia in…
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This paper uses a case study of the evolution of education and healthcare provision in Yantian Village, Guangdong Province to examine…
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in…
In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player…
Are China’s citizens sufficiently satisfied to reduce potential challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule? It is reasonable to…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in
the US rivaling that of Presidential…