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Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)
Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ...
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 ...
The rise of China: Competing or complementary to DAC aid flows in Africa?
(2016-09)
This study investigates if the relationship between bilateral DAC aid and Chinese aid allocation is better described as competing aid flows, or if Chinese aid has been mainly a
complement to DAC aid in Africa between the ...
High Daytime and Nighttime Temperatures Exert Large and Opposing Impacts on Winter Wheat Yield in China
(2017-07)
We analyzed a provincial-scale data set of observed winter wheat yield, together with fine-scale daily weather outcomes from 1979 to 2011, to assess the responses of winter wheat yield in China to changes in the daytime ...