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Tag: China

More Empathy, Fewer Bullies, But Why?

Qinyou Hu is a PhD student and job market candidate at Rice University. Click here for Qinyou’s job market paper … More

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China, Job Market Paper

Gender in rural finance: Evidence from China

Xin Gao is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent … More

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China, Finance, Gender, Migration, Risk

What does a degree buy you? Signaling, human capital, and the importance of credentials

Alex Eble is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University.  The puzzle Across the world, workers’ wages … More

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China, Education, Human Capital
"Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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