Li-An Zhou
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1632244 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Li-An Zhou |
| NOMBRES | Li-An |
| APELLIDO | Zhou |
| FIRMA | ZHOU L |
| AFILIACIONES | Peking University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Large-Firm Wage Premium in China’s Dual Labor Market
Retention Effects of Employee Stock Options
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China
Drinking water facilities and inclusive development
The effects of the entries by bike-sharing platforms on urban air quality
We study the effects of bike-sharing usage on urban air quality in China. Our Difference-in-Differences strategy exploits the staggered entries by two leading bike-sharing companies, ofo and Mobike, and utilizes city-day panel data. We find that the entries of the two bike-sharing platforms can reduce PM2.5 by 3.832 μg/m3. Further analyses imply that the effects are more conspicuous on pollutants from the exhaust emission of vehicles, increase wi…
The Making of Bad Gentry
This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam rem…
Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm
The within-firm gender wage gap is an important part of the overall gender gap in the labor market. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a personnel data set from a large Chinese company. The wage gap is small in the early stages of careers and becomes increasingly evident when female employees get married and have children. Whereas the short-term peak around childbirth can be explained by women’…
Arrival of Young Talent
This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local gazetteers and population censuses, we show that greater exposure to the sent-down youths significantly increased rural children’s educational achievement. This positive effect diminished after the urban youth l…
Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China
This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the critical role that politics play in shaping the spatial dimension of China's urbanization and the related welfare implications. Utilizing a large data set of residential land transactions matched with city leaders in 200 Chinese cities from 2000 through 2011, the empirical analysis finds that a 1 standard deviation increase in the career-incentive measure leads to 9 additional kilometers of…
Target Setting in Tournaments
Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to study optimal target setting in a multi-layered tournament-based organisation. In our model, targets are used by upper-level officials to convey the importance of economic growth and incentivise subordinates in the tournaments. Our model predicts a top-down amplification of economic growth targets al…
Understanding China
This article aims at engaging in a constructive dialogue with Philip Huang. We approach China’s administrative governance and economy from different perspectives but arrive at similar and complementary characterizations. I argue that what makes any theory about China valuable and valid lies in its ability to penetrate both China’s history and its present, link theory and evidence, go beyond left and right, and combine East and West. Since it has …
Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China
Few studies have attempted to identify a causal link between family income and child health, especially in developing countries. This article takes advantage of an exogenous income shock created by China’s rural tax reform between 2000 and 2003 to study the causal impact of household income on child health. The analysis finds that an increase in family income significantly raises children’s height-for-age z-scores. These effects are robust to alt…
Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom
Previous articleNext article FreeDemystifying the Chinese Housing BoomHanming Fang, Quanlin Gu, Wei Xiong, and Li-An ZhouHanming FangUniversity of Pennsylvania and NBER Search for more articles by this author , Quanlin GuGuanghua, School of Management, Peking University Search for more articles by this author , Wei XiongPrinceton University and NBER Search for more articles by this author , and Li-An ZhouGuanghua, School of Management, Peking Uni…
Strategic interaction in political competition
The Effect of Microinsurance on Economic Activities
We report results from a large, randomized field to study how access to formal microinsurance affects production and economic development. We induce exogenous variation in insurance coverage at the village level by randomly assigning performance incentives to the village animal husbandry worker who is responsible for signing farmers up for the insurance. We find that promoting greater adoption of insurance significantly increases farmers' sow pro…
Family Ties and Organizational Design
Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more decision rights and job responsibilities than nonfamily managers in the same firm. However, family managers face weaker incentives than professional managers, a…
The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959–1961 famine in China
Political connections, financing and firm performance
Relative performance evaluation and the turnover of provincial leaders in China
Political turnover and economic performance
Political connections, financing and firm performance
Target Setting in Tournaments
Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to study optimal target setting in a multi-layered tournament-based organisation. In our model, targets are used by upper-level officials to convey the importance of economic growth and incentivise subordinates in the tournaments. Our model predicts a top-down amplification of economic growth targets al…
Understanding China
This article aims at engaging in a constructive dialogue with Philip Huang. We approach China’s administrative governance and economy from different perspectives but arrive at similar and complementary characterizations. I argue that what makes any theory about China valuable and valid lies in its ability to penetrate both China’s history and its present, link theory and evidence, go beyond left and right, and combine East and West. Since it has …
Drinking water facilities and inclusive development
Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China
Few studies have attempted to identify a causal link between family income and child health, especially in developing countries. This article takes advantage of an exogenous income shock created by China’s rural tax reform between 2000 and 2003 to study the causal impact of household income on child health. The analysis finds that an increase in family income significantly raises children’s height-for-age z-scores. These effects are robust to alt…
The Making of Bad Gentry
This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam rem…
Relative performance evaluation and the turnover of provincial leaders in China
Political turnover and economic performance
The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959–1961 famine in China
Political connections, financing and firm performance
Family Ties and Organizational Design
Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more decision rights and job responsibilities than nonfamily managers in the same firm. However, family managers face weaker incentives than professional managers, a…
The Effect of Microinsurance on Economic Activities
We report results from a large, randomized field to study how access to formal microinsurance affects production and economic development. We induce exogenous variation in insurance coverage at the village level by randomly assigning performance incentives to the village animal husbandry worker who is responsible for signing farmers up for the insurance. We find that promoting greater adoption of insurance significantly increases farmers' sow pro…
Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom
Previous articleNext article FreeDemystifying the Chinese Housing BoomHanming Fang, Quanlin Gu, Wei Xiong, and Li-An ZhouHanming FangUniversity of Pennsylvania and NBER Search for more articles by this author , Quanlin GuGuanghua, School of Management, Peking University Search for more articles by this author , Wei XiongPrinceton University and NBER Search for more articles by this author , and Li-An ZhouGuanghua, School of Management, Peking Uni…
Strategic interaction in political competition
Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China
Few studies have attempted to identify a causal link between family income and child health, especially in developing countries. This article takes advantage of an exogenous income shock created by China’s rural tax reform between 2000 and 2003 to study the causal impact of household income on child health. The analysis finds that an increase in family income significantly raises children’s height-for-age z-scores. These effects are robust to alt…
Target Setting in Tournaments
Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to study optimal target setting in a multi-layered tournament-based organisation. In our model, targets are used by upper-level officials to convey the importance of economic growth and incentivise subordinates in the tournaments. Our model predicts a top-down amplification of economic growth targets al…
Understanding China
This article aims at engaging in a constructive dialogue with Philip Huang. We approach China’s administrative governance and economy from different perspectives but arrive at similar and complementary characterizations. I argue that what makes any theory about China valuable and valid lies in its ability to penetrate both China’s history and its present, link theory and evidence, go beyond left and right, and combine East and West. Since it has …
Arrival of Young Talent
This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local gazetteers and population censuses, we show that greater exposure to the sent-down youths significantly increased rural children’s educational achievement. This positive effect diminished after the urban youth l…
Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China
This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the critical role that politics play in shaping the spatial dimension of China's urbanization and the related welfare implications. Utilizing a large data set of residential land transactions matched with city leaders in 200 Chinese cities from 2000 through 2011, the empirical analysis finds that a 1 standard deviation increase in the career-incentive measure leads to 9 additional kilometers of…
Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm
The within-firm gender wage gap is an important part of the overall gender gap in the labor market. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a personnel data set from a large Chinese company. The wage gap is small in the early stages of careers and becomes increasingly evident when female employees get married and have children. Whereas the short-term peak around childbirth can be explained by women’…
The Making of Bad Gentry
This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam rem…
Drinking water facilities and inclusive development
The effects of the entries by bike-sharing platforms on urban air quality
We study the effects of bike-sharing usage on urban air quality in China. Our Difference-in-Differences strategy exploits the staggered entries by two leading bike-sharing companies, ofo and Mobike, and utilizes city-day panel data. We find that the entries of the two bike-sharing platforms can reduce PM2.5 by 3.832 μg/m3. Further analyses imply that the effects are more conspicuous on pollutants from the exhaust emission of vehicles, increase wi…
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China
Retention Effects of Employee Stock Options
Large-Firm Wage Premium in China’s Dual Labor Market
Economics (18 obras) · China (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Demographic economics (5 obras) · Incentive (5 obras)