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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
(2009-04-20)
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of
households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and
then jointly. We find that spouses’ ...
Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences
(2009-06-30)
Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector.
However, a key question often ignored by researchers and policy makers is what farmers
really want from reform. This paper ...
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China
(2008-05-22)
This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We
use a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about
their relative income and find that the ...
Suppliers' Compliance with MNCs' Codes of Conduct: Behind the Scenes at Chinese Toy Suppliers
(Springer, 2007)
Despite increased academic and practitioner interest in codes of conduct, there has been little
research into the actual compliance of suppliers in developing countries with the codes of
conduct of multinational corporations ...