Ruixue Jia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3709959 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ruixue Jia |
| NOMBRES | Ruixue |
| APELLIDO | Jia |
| FIRMA | JIA R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4381-4640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
English's significance
The Highest Exam
The Highest Exam
Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao —China’s high-stakes college admissions test—shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao, the nationwide college entrance exam. Unlike in the United States, where standardized tests are just one factor, in China college admission is determined …
A Mirror of Society
Entrepreneurial Reluctance
This paper examines the correlation between cognitive ability and firm creation. Drawing on administrative college admission data and firm registration records in China, we investigate who had created firms by their mid-thirties. We find a clear pattern of entrepreneurial reluctance: given the same backgrounds, individuals with higher college entrance exam scores are less likely to create firms. Through an exploration of firm performance, alterna…
Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China
We study how an elite college education affects social mobility in China. China provides an interesting context because its college admissions rely mainly on the scores of a centralized exam, a system that has been the subject of intense debate. Combining the data from a large-scale college graduate survey and a nationally representative household survey, we document three main findings. First, attending an elite college can change one’s fate to …
The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy
We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 C.E. period. We find that changes in the status of the provincial capital led to the rise and decline of different prefectures as measured by population and urbanization. Two other novel findings stand out: (1) the economic advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, a…
The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy
We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 period. We find that changes in the status of the provincial capital led to the rise and decline of different prefectures as measured by population and urbanization. Two other novel findings stand out: (1) the economic advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, and (2…
Doing business in China
Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score
A burgeoning literature has documented the importance of elite colleges.Yet, little is known about access to elite education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world.College admission in China is governed by a single exam-the national college entrance exam, and the government sets admission cutoff scores for elite colleges.We examine the impacts of scoring above the elite…
Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust
This paper studies the impact of air pollution spillover from China to South Korea. To isolate the effects of cross-border pollution spillover from that of locally generated pollution, we exploit within-South Korea and over-time variation in the incidence of Asian dust—a meteorological phenomenon exogenous to district–time cells in South Korea—together with temporal variations in China's air quality. We find that conditional on being exposed to A…
Decentralization, Collusion, and Coal Mine Deaths
This paper investigates how collusion between regulators and firms affects workplace safety using the case of China’s coal mine deaths. We argue that decentralization makes collusion more likely and that its effect is strengthened if the transaction costs of collusion are lower. These hypotheses are tested by investigating the impact of decentralization contingent on regulators’ characteristics. Exploring both decentralization and centralization …
Elite Recruitment and Political Stability
This paper studies how the abolition of an elite recruitment system—China's civil exam system that lasted over 1, 300 years—affects political stability. Employing a panel data set across 262 prefectures and exploring the variations in the quotas on the entry‐level exam candidates, we find that higher quotas per capita were associated with a higher probability of revolution participation after the abolition and a higher incidence of uprisings in 1…
Political Selection in China: The Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance
Who becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders—a pool of candidates for top political office—and examine how their chances of promotion depend on their performance in office and connections with top politicians. Our empirical analysis, based on the curriculum vitae of Chinese politicians, shows that connections and performance are complements in the Chinese political selection process. This complementarity is stronger the y…
The Legacies of Forced Freedom
This paper investigates the long-run development of China's treaty ports from the mid-eighteenth century until today. Focusing on a sample of prefectures on the coast or on the Yangtze River, I document the dynamic development paths of treaty ports and their neighbors in alternate phases of closedness and openness. I also provide suggestive evidence on migration and sector-wise growth to understand the advantage of treaty ports in the long run
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China
Journal Article Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China Get access Ruixue Jia Ruixue Jia IIES Stockholm University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 124, Issue 575, March 2014, Pages 92–118, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12037 Published: 01 July 2013 Article history Received: 09 June 2011 Accepted: 19 December 2012 Published: 01 July 2013
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China
Journal Article Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China Get access Ruixue Jia Ruixue Jia IIES Stockholm University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 124, Issue 575, March 2014, Pages 92–118, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12037 Published: 01 July 2013 Article history Received: 09 June 2011 Accepted: 19 December 2012 Published: 01 July 2013
Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust
This paper studies the impact of air pollution spillover from China to South Korea. To isolate the effects of cross-border pollution spillover from that of locally generated pollution, we exploit within-South Korea and over-time variation in the incidence of Asian dust—a meteorological phenomenon exogenous to district–time cells in South Korea—together with temporal variations in China's air quality. We find that conditional on being exposed to A…
Doing business in China
Entrepreneurial Reluctance
This paper examines the correlation between cognitive ability and firm creation. Drawing on administrative college admission data and firm registration records in China, we investigate who had created firms by their mid-thirties. We find a clear pattern of entrepreneurial reluctance: given the same backgrounds, individuals with higher college entrance exam scores are less likely to create firms. Through an exploration of firm performance, alterna…
The Legacies of Forced Freedom
This paper investigates the long-run development of China's treaty ports from the mid-eighteenth century until today. Focusing on a sample of prefectures on the coast or on the Yangtze River, I document the dynamic development paths of treaty ports and their neighbors in alternate phases of closedness and openness. I also provide suggestive evidence on migration and sector-wise growth to understand the advantage of treaty ports in the long run
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China
Journal Article Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China Get access Ruixue Jia Ruixue Jia IIES Stockholm University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 124, Issue 575, March 2014, Pages 92–118, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12037 Published: 01 July 2013 Article history Received: 09 June 2011 Accepted: 19 December 2012 Published: 01 July 2013
Political Selection in China: The Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance
Who becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders—a pool of candidates for top political office—and examine how their chances of promotion depend on their performance in office and connections with top politicians. Our empirical analysis, based on the curriculum vitae of Chinese politicians, shows that connections and performance are complements in the Chinese political selection process. This complementarity is stronger the y…
Elite Recruitment and Political Stability
This paper studies how the abolition of an elite recruitment system—China's civil exam system that lasted over 1, 300 years—affects political stability. Employing a panel data set across 262 prefectures and exploring the variations in the quotas on the entry‐level exam candidates, we find that higher quotas per capita were associated with a higher probability of revolution participation after the abolition and a higher incidence of uprisings in 1…
Decentralization, Collusion, and Coal Mine Deaths
This paper investigates how collusion between regulators and firms affects workplace safety using the case of China’s coal mine deaths. We argue that decentralization makes collusion more likely and that its effect is strengthened if the transaction costs of collusion are lower. These hypotheses are tested by investigating the impact of decentralization contingent on regulators’ characteristics. Exploring both decentralization and centralization …
Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust
This paper studies the impact of air pollution spillover from China to South Korea. To isolate the effects of cross-border pollution spillover from that of locally generated pollution, we exploit within-South Korea and over-time variation in the incidence of Asian dust—a meteorological phenomenon exogenous to district–time cells in South Korea—together with temporal variations in China's air quality. We find that conditional on being exposed to A…
The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy
We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 period. We find that changes in the status of the provincial capital led to the rise and decline of different prefectures as measured by population and urbanization. Two other novel findings stand out: (1) the economic advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, and (2…
Doing business in China
Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score
A burgeoning literature has documented the importance of elite colleges.Yet, little is known about access to elite education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world.College admission in China is governed by a single exam-the national college entrance exam, and the government sets admission cutoff scores for elite colleges.We examine the impacts of scoring above the elite…
The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy
We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 C.E. period. We find that changes in the status of the provincial capital led to the rise and decline of different prefectures as measured by population and urbanization. Two other novel findings stand out: (1) the economic advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, a…
The Highest Exam
The Highest Exam
Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao —China’s high-stakes college admissions test—shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao, the nationwide college entrance exam. Unlike in the United States, where standardized tests are just one factor, in China college admission is determined …
A Mirror of Society
Entrepreneurial Reluctance
This paper examines the correlation between cognitive ability and firm creation. Drawing on administrative college admission data and firm registration records in China, we investigate who had created firms by their mid-thirties. We find a clear pattern of entrepreneurial reluctance: given the same backgrounds, individuals with higher college entrance exam scores are less likely to create firms. Through an exploration of firm performance, alterna…
Elite College Education and Social Mobility in China
We study how an elite college education affects social mobility in China. China provides an interesting context because its college admissions rely mainly on the scores of a centralized exam, a system that has been the subject of intense debate. Combining the data from a large-scale college graduate survey and a nationally representative household survey, we document three main findings. First, attending an elite college can change one’s fate to …
English's significance
China (14 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras)