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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 ...
A Fair Share : Burden-Sharing Preferences in the United States and China
(2010-10)
Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic
burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United
States and China. We asked respondents about ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...
Chinese aid and local corruption
(2016-06)
Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we
geographically match a new geo-referenced ...
Long-run effects of family policies: An experimental study of the Chinese one-child policy
(2018-05)
We present lab-in-the-field experimental evidence of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on individuals’ preferences and behavior as adults. The experiments were conducted in three different provinces because the ...
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa
(2017-04)
Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China’s tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout ...
The Effects of an Environmental Policy on Consumers: Lessons from the Chinese Plastic Bag Regulation
(2010-06-03)
To reduce plastic bag litter, China introduced a nationwide regulation requiring all retailers to
charge for plastic shopping bags on June 1, 2008. By using the policy implementation as a natural
experiment and collecting ...
Session Size and its Effect on Identity Building: Evidence from a public goods experiment
(2013-03)
The effect of session size has largely been ignored in experimental studies, despite the possibility that it may play a role by changing people’s perception of the potential chance of encountering a certain type of people ...
Consistent Negative Responses of Rice Yield in China to High Temperatures and Extreme Temperature Events
(2017-07)
We analyzed a county-level data set of rice yield and daily weather outcomes in China to examine the effects of high temperatures and extreme temperature events on rice yield. We found that (i) rice yield responded negatively ...