China
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Money Alone Can’t Buy Positive Education Outcomes in China
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Compared to monetary resources, non-monetary resources, particularly parenting practices, are more consequential for children’s achievement in the Chinese context.
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Spillover Effects on Air Quality and Health
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A study links special government controls on pollution enacted during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to significant increases in air quality and significant decreases in mortality rates associated with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
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The Lonely Sequel of China’s One-Child Policy
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A recent study shows the struggles of an increasing number of Chinese parents who have lost their only child and will have to rely on the public system for support during their old age.
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Antibiotic Breach: The Fall of Another Powerful Antibiotic Drug
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This study presents the first observed case of transmittable antibiotic resistance to colistin, one of the most potent antibiotics available. Colistin belongs to a class of antibiotics of “last resort,” called polymyxin. The study highlights the need for increased regulation of antimicrobial use to avoid a global health crisis.
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The Strategy Behind China’s Rising Influence in Latin America
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China’s efforts to foster a partnership with countries in Latin America reflects its strategic goal of enhancing its “hard” and “soft” power to elevate China’s status at the systemic level.
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China’s Official Unemployment Rate: An Unusual Outlier or a Lie?
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As a result of mismeasurement, the official unemployment rate series for China is implausible and is an outlier in the distribution of unemployment rates across countries ranked by their stages of development.
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Open for Innovation: How Does Open Innovation Impact National Laboratories?
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Open innovation has an impact on both scientific and technological innovation on the national laboratory level through links with industry, international collaboration, and the employment of non-permanent staff.
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Understanding ‘Home Bias’ in the Global Stock Market
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Stock price data for a set of Chinese firms highlight the effects of information asymmetry created by differences in social trust between local and foreign investors.
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A Tripartite Alliance for Hukou Reform
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Although earlier hukou reforms benefited rural residents by allowing them to seek employment and business opportunities in the city, recent hukou reforms have served as a wheel of agrarian capitalism, the purpose of which is to lure or force rural residents to leave land for city and to open up…
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All Business: Wanxiang America’s Pin Ni Discusses the New US-China Relationship
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Wanxiang America President Pin Ni shares his insights as a businessman and practitioner on the US-China relationship.
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Time for China to Embrace Property Tax?
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Chinese local government’s revenue dependence on land granting is no longer sustainable due to exhausted land resources, distorted profit distribution, and rampant sprawl development. Property tax might solve the problem.