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February 19, 2020

Expert commission delivers annual report on research and innovation in Germany

IZA research director Holger Bonin recommends strengthening China expertise in firms and universities

  • China
  • cybersecurity
  • Germany
  • innovation
  • research
  • reunification
  • technology
  • Holger Bonin
Research

March 1, 2018

How China’s rise has challenged the benign view of free trade

The costs and benefits of free trade are one of the most contentious topics in economic policy. Economists often argue […]

  • China
  • free trade
  • globalization
  • labor market
  • United States
  • David Autor
Research

November 16, 2017

Economic costs of global warming

Climate change is considered one of the major challenges of the 21st century. While politicians and scientists at the COP23 […]

  • birth rates
  • China
  • climate change
  • economic outcomes
  • global warming
  • life expectancy
  • manufacturing
  • mortality
  • total factor productivity
  • United States
  • Alan I. Barreca
  • Joseph S. Shapiro
  • Junjie Zhang
  • Karen Clay
  • Kyle C. Meng
  • Melanie Guldi
  • Michael Greenstone
  • Olivier Deschenes
  • Peng Zhang
Research

July 7, 2017

Public health in utero: How external factors influence birth outcomes

By Jeanna Canapari (Yale University) In the study of birth outcomes, going to extremes is not always necessary. While intense […]

  • birth outcomes
  • China
  • environment
  • fetal development
  • health
  • nutrition
  • prenatal care
  • Ramadan
  • Jeanna Canapari
  • Xi Chen
  • Xiaobo Zhang
Research

September 15, 2016

How the world’s largest social pension reform is transforming family old-age care

By Xi Chen (Yale University and IZA) Social pensions are designed to provide the elderly population, especially those with low […]

  • China
  • elderly
  • family
  • income
  • life expectancy
  • NRPS
  • old age
  • retirement
  • social pensions
  • social security
  • Ang Sun
  • Karen Eggleston
  • Tianyu Wang
  • Xi Chen
Research

April 19, 2016

China’s new two-child policy not enough to cope with aging population

In January 2016, China formally changed its one-child policy, now allowing all couples to have two children. Fei Wang, Liqiu […]

  • China
  • demography
  • Elderly Dependency Rate
  • family planning
  • fertility rate
  • one-child policy
  • population aging
  • population pyramid
  • social policy
  • Fei Wang
  • Liqiu Zhao
  • Zhong Zhao
Research

January 28, 2015

Savings and political turmoil: The case of the Tiananmen Square protests

Cutting-edge macroeconomic research suggests that political uncertainty heavily influences private consumption. However, evidence on the individual level how households cope […]

  • China
  • consumption
  • massacre
  • politics
  • protest
  • savings
  • Tiananmen
  • uncertainty
  • Kai Liu
  • Rolf Aaberge
  • Yu Zhu
Research

September 19, 2014

Ethnically diverse co-authors produce better research papers

Thinking about a new research paper? You may want to start searching for co-authors of different ethnicity. Statistically, this will […]

  • author
  • China
  • diversity
  • ethnicity
  • homophily
  • journal
  • publication
  • research
  • Science
  • team
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • Wei Huang
Research

September 12, 2014

Chinese imports push low-skilled Norwegians into unemployment

China’s rise to global economic power has had a major impact on the recent globalization process. In 2009, China became […]

  • China
  • employment
  • export
  • globalization
  • import
  • industry
  • manufactoring
  • Norway
  • trade
  • unemployment
  • wage bargaining
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Ragnhild Balsvik
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

June 17, 2014

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences

International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Research

June 14, 2014

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences

International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Opinion

May 14, 2014

China’s still playing catch-up

The era of U.S. economic dominance would appear to be over. New calculations from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program, […]

  • China
  • cross-country comparisons
  • global trade
  • leadership
  • local costs
  • market exchange rates
  • purchasing power
  • US economy
  • Eswar Prasad
Research

April 14, 2014

Knowing that you matter, matters: the luck of having a meaningful job

What if somebody told you that your job was completely irrelevant and useless? Would you still work with the same […]

  • China
  • field experiment
  • meaning
  • monetary incentives
  • motivation
  • performance
  • recognition
  • student
  • Michael Kosfeld
  • Susanne Neckermann
  • Xiaolan Yang
Opinion

November 11, 2013

Beijing’s caution on reforms makes sense – for now

By Eswar Prasad Cataloguing China’s economic risks has become a popular parlour game. In the past decade, a steady drumbeat […]

  • China
  • economic risk
  • financial system
  • foreign investment
  • government debt
  • growth
  • interest rates
  • reforms
  • Eswar Prasad
Research

July 12, 2013

How superstition affects house prices

People looking to buy and sell homes in areas with large concentrations of Asian immigrants may benefit from a crash […]

  • bounded rationality
  • China
  • housing prices
  • real-estate
  • superstition
  • Andrew J. Hill
  • Jeff Huang
  • Nicole M. Fortin

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