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Growing Apart: Declining Within- and Across-Village Risk Sharing in Rural China
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts, and Yu Zheng , May 25, 2022China has embarked on an ambitious campaign to close income gaps, address regional inequality and unfair social welfare provision, and make solid progress toward common prosperity by 2035. This marks a shift in focus from overall growth to promoting equitable and balanced growth.
Consumer-Financed Fiscal Stimulus Evidence from Digital Coupons in China
Jing Ding, Lei Jiang, Lucy Msall, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Feb 05, 2025In 2020, local governments in China began issuing digital coupons to stimulate spending in targeted categories such as restaurants and supermarkets. We find that the coupons caused large increases in spending of 3.1–3.3 yuan per yuan spent by the government. The large spending responses do not come from substitution away from non-targeted spending categories or from short-run intertemporal substitution. We conclude that digital coupons are a cost-effective way to provide targeted fiscal stimulus to specific sectors of the economy.
Social Media Engagement Increases Government Action, Decreases Pollution
Mark Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, Shaoda Wang, Bing Zhang, Dec 14, 2022In China, citizen participation in environmental governance via social media could significantly improve regulatory effort, leading to substantial environmental benefits.
Improving Regulation for Innovation: Evidence from China’s Pharmaceutical Industry
Ruixue Jia, Xiao Ma, Jianan Yang, Yiran Zhang, Mar 06, 2024In 2015, China revamped its pharmaceutical regulations, drawing inspiration from the US, to accelerate drug approvals. Using data at the drug and firm levels during 2011–2021, this study reveals three key outcomes.
Government Deleveraging and Non-SOE Liquidity Squeeze: Evidence from Subnational Debt and Government Contractors
Jiayin Hu, Songrui Liu, Yang Yao, Zhu Zong, May 15, 2024China's deleveraging policies have inadvertently exacerbated the financial liquidity pressure on non-state-owned enterprise (non-SOE) contractors, revealing the potential adverse impact of government fiscal consolidation on private enterprises.
