Guided by a simple career concerns model with the choice of dirty and clean technologies, i examine empirically how promotion incentives of provincial governors aect pollution. Ruixue jia additional contact information ruixue jia. In 2016, sales of industrial robots in china reached 87,00. Social ties and the selection of chinas political elite. Seim, david, essays on public, political and labor economics 2810 kb. Hong cheng is professor of economics and management at wuhan university, wuhan, china. Ruixue jia is an associate professor of economics at the school, where she focuses her research on the political economy, development economics, economic history and china. He is also a senior fellow at the center for democracy, development and rule of law, in the freemanspogli institute and at the stanford institute for economic policy research. The series aims to cover topical policy issues in economics from a largely european perspective. I am indebted to antonio ciccone, two anonymous referees and torsten persson whose comments and suggestions substantially improved the exposition of the article. The political logic and economic consequences with ruixue jia.
Martinez bravo, monica, gerard padro i miguel, nancy qian and yang yao. China center for economic research, peking university m. Ruixue jia, institute for international economic studies, stockholm university, stockholm 10691, sweden. The rise of robots in china american economic association. Using prefecturelevel panel data and exploiting regime changes during ad2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the. Insecure property rights and government ownership of firms.
Ruixue jia and hongbin li march 15, 2017 yale university. National bureau of economic research, 1050 massachusetts ave. Honors and awards 2019 teaching excellence awards, may 2019, iowa state university 2015 standard graduate student scholarship, aug 2015 present, iowa state university 2012 full scholarship for graduate students, sep 2012 june 2015, wuhan university. Yiqing xu, assistant professor, political science, uc san diego this paper takes a novel perspective on the selection of leaders in the chinese communist party ccp by focusing on career. Jia uses organization theory to closely examine the incentives of politicians. This paper demonstrates that chinas high environmental pollution levels can partly be explained by the incentives embedded in the countrys political institutions. Peter hessler, this american life, radiolab, be green packaging llc, stockholm institute of transition economics, a year of books, music box theatre, gene siskel film center of the school of the art institute of chicago. This paper studies the powerpublication link by applying an eventstudy strategy to a panel dataset of the publication and biographical information of deans of economics schools in. Qin, bei, essays on empirical development and political economics 3275 kb. Our model is constructed to be consistent with four motivating facts for ethnic choices in china, but it. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e.
Abstract this paper investigates how collusion between regulators and firms affects workplace safety using the case of chinas coal mine deaths. This paper investigates the longrun development of chinas treaty ports from the mideighteenth century until today. Pollution for promotion china economics summer institute. Power and publications in chinese academia, journal of comparative economics. Connections and the selection of chinas political elite. Elections, public goods and the income distribution. Weather shocks, sweet potatoes and peasant revolts in historical china, economic journal, 124575.
Saumitra jha is an associate professor of political economy at stanfords graduate school of business, and, by courtesy, of economics and of political science. Ruixue jiayand hongbin liz march 15, 2017 abstract this paper studies the returns to elite education and the implications of elite education on elite formation and social mobility, exploiting an open elite education recruitment system chinas college entrance exam. Net by ruixue jia, school of global policy and strategy, university of california san diego. Jia, ruixue and hongbin, li, the value of elite education in china december 1, 2017. The rise of robots in china by hong cheng, ruixue jia, dandan li and hongbin li. The impact of the abolition of chinas civil service exam with ying bai econometrica, vol. When torsten and david accepted to be my advisor and coadvisor, i celebrated it by reading a journal article instead of watching a movie. Ruixue jia and hongbin li october 18, 2016 harvard. Migration, competition, and human capital accumulation in historic china. Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of welldefined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. The value of elite education in china by ruixue jia, li. Theory and evidence from china ruixue jiayand torsten perssonz february 11, 2014 abstract this paper provides a framework to link the ethnic choice for children with interethnic marriage.
Department of economics, harvard university special student 20072009. Theory and evidence from china with torsten persson. Ying bai department of economics, the chinese university of hong kong verified email at cuhk. Weather shocks, sweet potatoes and peasant revolts in.
Jia, ruixue, essays on the political economics of chinas development 1759 kb. Decentralization, collusion, and coal mine deaths the. Employing a panel dataset across 262 prefectures and exploring the variations in the quotas on the entry. How career tracks matter in the chinese communist party nov. Jia, ruixue, pollution for promotion march 21, 2017. We argue that china, with its long history, a relatively stable political system, and multiple regime changes, provides us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Ruixue jia is an assistant professor of economics at the school of global policy and strategy, uc san diego, where she focuses her research on the political economy, development economics, and economic history. Campa, pamela, media influence on pollution, and gender equality 1803 kb. Ruixue jiayand hongbin liz october 18, 2016 abstract this paper studies the returns to elite education and their implications on elite formation and social mobility, exploiting an open elite education recruitment system chinas college entrance exam. Fisman would like to thank national science foundation grant number. Join facebook to connect with ruixue jia and others you may know. Weather shocks, sweet potatoes and peasant revolts in historical china, working paper pdf economic journal, 2014, vol. Stockholm university, faculty of social sciences, institute for international economic studies. If we simply compare the economic performance of treaty ports with other locations.
China is the worlds largest user of industrial robots. Stockholm university phd student department of economics, 20042007. Power and publications in chinese academia by ruixue jia, huihua nie, wei xiao in poweroriented societies, academia may not be immune to the influence of power. The books in this series are the products of the papers and intensive debates that took place during the seminars hosted by.
Department of economics iowa state university ames, iowa. Essays on the political economics of chinas development. She received her phd from the institute for international economic studies, stockholm university in 20. Jia uses organization theory to closely examine the incentives. When torsten and david accepted to be my advisor and coadvisor, i celebrated it by reading.
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