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Publikováno v:
Journal of Comparative Economics. 50:732-749
Autor:
Chao Cheng, Shiyu Bo
Publikováno v:
Journal of Comparative Economics. 49:933-946
This paper studies the distributional effects of a centralisation reform of China’s political hierarchy on regional urbanisation. Initiated in 1983, the reform, implemented over a 20-year period, transferred the decision-making powers of county-lev
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 184:606-652
We develop a model of inter-governmental communication to study the impact of decentralization on economic performance under an authoritarian regime. Decentralization shifts the decision power of policy-making from the central government to the local
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 179:141-151
Reducing the number of layers (or “flattening”) government hierarchies is a popular trend in developing countries, but the value of doing so is unclear. Using a hierarchy reform in China that started in 2003 as an exogenous shock, we investigate
Autor:
Shiyu Bo
Publikováno v:
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 83:812-835
How do nationwide environmental regulations produce heterogeneous effects on the economic activities of manufacturing firms located in places with differently incentivized city leaders? This paper answers this question by drawing on a set of firm‐b
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 170:1-19
We examine the effect of media persuasion on educational choice, and find that Chinese newspaper articles on violence against doctors influence students’ decisions to study medicine at college. We match articles from over 1200 newspapers with an ad
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 161:103015
Publikováno v:
Economics of Education Review. 68:27-37
This paper provides empirical evidence on how China’s transition from the Boston mechanism to the Chinese parallel mechanism (a simplified version of the Deferred Acceptance mechanism), along with changes to the information available to students on
Autor:
Shiyu Bo
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics. 50:4830-4846
This article investigates the effect of children’s gender on parents’ time allocation in developing countries due to the long-existing tradition of son preference. A collective model generates pred...
Autor:
Shiyu Bo
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Economics. 115:103182
How does centralization or decentralization in government affect regional development? This paper draws upon a quasi-natural experiment in China’s political hierarchy from the 1980s to investigate the effects of centralization in a novel sub-provin