Hongbin Li
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3709960 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hongbin Li |
| NOMBRES | Hongbin |
| APELLIDO | Li |
| FIRMA | LI H |
| AFILIACIONES | Tsinghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5229-0076 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 399 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Large-Firm Wage Premium in China’s Dual Labor Market
Clinical characteristics and etiological analysis of deep fungal infections in a general hospital in Southwest China (2020–2024)
Background Deep fungal infections (DFIs) represent a significant and growing threat to hospitalized patients, contributing to substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. The healthcare landscape has undergone notable changes in recent years, particularly with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has altered host immunity and care pathways, potentially influencing the epidemiology of DFIs. Objective This study aimed to delineate the clini…
English's significance
Exploring the relationships among large language model acceptance, enjoyment, anxiety, and self-efficacy in L2 academic writing
Self-efficacy plays a central role in L2 academic writing. However, limited attention has been paid to how technology-related factors and emotions jointly shape learners' self-efficacy in L2 academic writing. Drawing on control-value theory and self-efficacy theory, this study investigates the relationships among large language model (LLM) acceptance, enjoyment, anxiety, and self-efficacy in L2 academic writing. A total of 643 Chinese EFL graduat…
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
Curriculum, Political Participation, and Career Choice
We examine the causal impact of ideological education on students' political participation and career choices by exploiting China's staggered rollout of a high school curriculum reform that emphasized political indoctrination. Using nationally representative survey data on college students that the authors collected, we find that exposure to the new curriculum increases the likelihood of joining the Chinese Communist Party by 14% and raises the p…
Heuristics in Self-Evaluation
Using administrative data on the Chinese National College Entrance Examination, we study how left-digit bias affects college applications. We find strong discontinuities in students’ admission outcomes at ten-point thresholds. Students with scores just below multiples of 10 make more conservative college application choices that place them into less selective colleges and majors. In contrast, students who score at or just above multiples of 10 ai…
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility 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…
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 language requirement and educational inequality
This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China’s high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the rural–urban gap in college access. Leveraging administrative data covering the universe of NCEE participants between 1999 and 2003, we find that the introduction of English listening tests significantly lowe…
Visualization analysis of feminist translation research in China (2002–2021) based on CiteSpace
Based on 601 articles on feminist translation theory published in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) in the last 20 years from 2002 to 2021, this article draws a scientific knowledge map and makes a visual analysis of the research articles on feminist translation theory in China using CiteSpace as a visual tool. It was found that (1) both the cooperation between researchers and between research institutions in the domain of feminist t…
Precipitation variations since the Last Deglacial reconstructed from pollen records in the Central Plains of China
Deep Fungal Infections Among General Hospital Inpatients in Southwestern China
Background Deep fungal infection is a type of life-threatening opportunistic infection. Its incidence has been increasing in recent years. This infection can affect the prognosis of patients, prolong hospital stays and raise costs for patients and their families. Objective We aimed to understand the current situation of deep fungal infections in the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University and to provide a basis for the clinical di…
The Scarring Effects of College Education Deprivation during China's Cultural Revolution
China’s college enrollment system came to a sudden halt as the Cultural Revolution started. Virtually no students were admitted to colleges from 1966 to 1969. We estimate a marked downward shift in college completion rates for the affected cohorts. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we show that these individuals experienced a sizable reduction in labor supply, earnings, and wealth after some 30 years, which can be attributed to the loss …
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 Performance of State-Owned Enterprises
Drawing on data from a random sample of manufacturing firms collected in 2016 for the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), we examine differences in measures of productivity and financial returns between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms in China. The summary statistics show that labor productivity and total factor productivity are generally higher at SOEs than at private firms, but the productivity advantage of SOEs can mostly b…
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Xinxiang, China
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is recognized as the liver disease component of metabolic syndrome, which is mainly related to insulin resistance and genetic susceptibility. It is the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide. With rapid lifestyle transitions, its prevalence worldwide is increasing, and tremendous challenges in controlling this pandemic are arising. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalen…
Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
China’s land reform in 1978–84 unleashed rapid growth in farm output and household income. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of male children following the reform. Among second births that followed a firstborn girl, sex ratios increased from 1.1 to 1.3 boys per girl in the 4 years following reform. Larger increases are found among families with more education. The land reform estimate i…
Behaviors Related to Mosquito-Borne Diseases among Different Ethnic Minority Groups along the China-Laos Border Areas
Background : In China, mosquito-borne diseases are most common in the sub-tropical area of Yunnan province. The objective of this study was to examine behaviors related to mosquito-borne diseases in different ethnic minority groups and different socioeconomic groups of people living in this region. Methods : A stratified two-stage cluster sampling technique with probability proportional to size was used in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture,…
Human Capital and China's Future Growth
In this paper, we consider the sources and prospects for economic growth in China with a focus on human capital. First, we provide an overview of the role that labor has played in China's economic success. We then describe China's hukou policy, which divides China's labor force into two distinct segments, one composed of rural workers and the other of urban workers. For the rural labor force, we focus on the challenges of raising human capital by…
Girl adoption in China-A less-known side of son preference
In 1987, 4 per cent of girls were adopted within China. Why? Unlike infanticide, abandonment rids parents of daughters while preserving the supply of potential brides. In fact, an erstwhile tradition common in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces had parents of sons adopting an infant girl to serve as a future daughter-in-law and household help. Analysing a nationally representative 1992 survey of children, we found that: (1) girl adoptions were concentr…
Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy
This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China’s Huai River policy, which provided free winter heating via the provision of coal for boilers in cities north of the Huai River but denied…
Political connections, financing and firm performance
The quantity-Quality trade-Off of children In a developing country
Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth order effect. We then instrument family size by the exogenous variation that is induced by a tw…
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership
This article estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows a Party premium of 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation is that the OLS premium is due to omitted ability and family background. This interpretation suggests that Party members fare well not because of their political status but because of the superior ability th…
Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
China’s land reform in 1978–84 unleashed rapid growth in farm output and household income. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of male children following the reform. Among second births that followed a firstborn girl, sex ratios increased from 1.1 to 1.3 boys per girl in the 4 years following reform. Larger increases are found among families with more education. The land reform estimate i…
Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on the Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy applies only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by using a difference-in-differences (DD) estimator. Using the 1990 census, we find that the strict enforcement of the one-child policy led to 4.4 extra boys per 100 girls in t…
Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China
Does having a cadre parent pay? Evidence from the first job offers of Chinese college graduates
Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources
We use survey data on twins in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Cultural Revolution, to identify the roles of altruism, favoritism, and guilt in affecting family behavior. We exploit the fact that many families were forced to select one of their adolescent children to be sent down. We show the conditions under which guilt, favoritism, and altruism can be identified using such…
Effects of longevity and dependency rates on saving and growth
Human Capital and China's Future Growth
In this paper, we consider the sources and prospects for economic growth in China with a focus on human capital. First, we provide an overview of the role that labor has played in China's economic success. We then describe China's hukou policy, which divides China's labor force into two distinct segments, one composed of rural workers and the other of urban workers. For the rural labor force, we focus on the challenges of raising human capital by…
Insider privatization with a tail
The End of Cheap Chinese Labor
In recent decades, cheap labor has played a central role in the Chinese model, which has relied on expanded participation in world trade as a main driver of growth. At the beginning of China's economic reforms in 1978, the annual wage of a Chinese urban worker was only $1,004 in U.S. dollars. The Chinese wage was only 3 percent of the average U.S. wage at that time, and it was also significantly lower than the wages in neighboring Asian countries…
Girl adoption in China-A less-known side of son preference
In 1987, 4 per cent of girls were adopted within China. Why? Unlike infanticide, abandonment rids parents of daughters while preserving the supply of potential brides. In fact, an erstwhile tradition common in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces had parents of sons adopting an infant girl to serve as a future daughter-in-law and household help. Analysing a nationally representative 1992 survey of children, we found that: (1) girl adoptions were concentr…
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility 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 Scarring Effects of College Education Deprivation during China's Cultural Revolution
China’s college enrollment system came to a sudden halt as the Cultural Revolution started. Virtually no students were admitted to colleges from 1966 to 1969. We estimate a marked downward shift in college completion rates for the affected cohorts. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we show that these individuals experienced a sizable reduction in labor supply, earnings, and wealth after some 30 years, which can be attributed to the loss …
English language requirement and educational inequality
This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China’s high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the rural–urban gap in college access. Leveraging administrative data covering the universe of NCEE participants between 1999 and 2003, we find that the introduction of English listening tests significantly lowe…
The Performance of State-Owned Enterprises
Drawing on data from a random sample of manufacturing firms collected in 2016 for the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), we examine differences in measures of productivity and financial returns between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms in China. The summary statistics show that labor productivity and total factor productivity are generally higher at SOEs than at private firms, but the productivity advantage of SOEs can mostly b…
Qing History
Vol. 6, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1985 QING HISTORY: THE STATE OF THE FIELD IN 1983 Luo Ming $^ i$ and Li Hongbin |.^m Translator's Note: In deference to the scholar to whom this volume is dedicated, I wish to highlight two themes in this review of Qing studies in the People's Republic on which Joseph Fletcher's work has direct bearing . Imperial succession in the Manchu line has always excited strong debate among Chinese historians, and …
Bank discrimination in transition economies
Insider privatization with a tail
Relative performance evaluation and the turnover of provincial leaders in China
Political turnover and economic performance
Effects of longevity and dependency rates on saving and growth
Do High Birth Rates Hamper Economic Growth
This paper examines the impact of the birth rate on economic growth by using a panel data set of 28 provinces in China over twenty years. Because China's one-child policy applied only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to use the proportion of minorities in a province as an instrumental variable to identify the causal effect of the birth rate on economic growth. We find that the birth rate has a neg…
Political connections, financing and firm performance
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership
This article estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows a Party premium of 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation is that the OLS premium is due to omitted ability and family background. This interpretation suggests that Party members fare well not because of their political status but because of the superior ability th…
The quantity-Quality trade-Off of children In a developing country
Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth order effect. We then instrument family size by the exogenous variation that is induced by a tw…
Mother’s education and child health
Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources
We use survey data on twins in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Cultural Revolution, to identify the roles of altruism, favoritism, and guilt in affecting family behavior. We exploit the fact that many families were forced to select one of their adolescent children to be sent down. We show the conditions under which guilt, favoritism, and altruism can be identified using such…
Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China
Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on the Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy applies only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by using a difference-in-differences (DD) estimator. Using the 1990 census, we find that the strict enforcement of the one-child policy led to 4.4 extra boys per 100 girls in t…
Does having a cadre parent pay? Evidence from the first job offers of Chinese college graduates
The End of Cheap Chinese Labor
In recent decades, cheap labor has played a central role in the Chinese model, which has relied on expanded participation in world trade as a main driver of growth. At the beginning of China's economic reforms in 1978, the annual wage of a Chinese urban worker was only $1,004 in U.S. dollars. The Chinese wage was only 3 percent of the average U.S. wage at that time, and it was also significantly lower than the wages in neighboring Asian countries…
Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy
This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China’s Huai River policy, which provided free winter heating via the provision of coal for boilers in cities north of the Huai River but denied…
Sex Ratios and Crime
Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born, foreshadowing a sizable bride shortage. What do young men unable to find wives do? This paper focuses on criminality, an asocial activity that has seen a marked rise since the mid-1990s. Exploiting province-year level variation, we find an elasticity of crime with respect to the sex ratio of 16- to 25-year-olds of 3.4, suggesting that male s…
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…
Girl adoption in China-A less-known side of son preference
In 1987, 4 per cent of girls were adopted within China. Why? Unlike infanticide, abandonment rids parents of daughters while preserving the supply of potential brides. In fact, an erstwhile tradition common in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces had parents of sons adopting an infant girl to serve as a future daughter-in-law and household help. Analysing a nationally representative 1992 survey of children, we found that: (1) girl adoptions were concentr…
Behaviors Related to Mosquito-Borne Diseases among Different Ethnic Minority Groups along the China-Laos Border Areas
Background : In China, mosquito-borne diseases are most common in the sub-tropical area of Yunnan province. The objective of this study was to examine behaviors related to mosquito-borne diseases in different ethnic minority groups and different socioeconomic groups of people living in this region. Methods : A stratified two-stage cluster sampling technique with probability proportional to size was used in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture,…
Human Capital and China's Future Growth
In this paper, we consider the sources and prospects for economic growth in China with a focus on human capital. First, we provide an overview of the role that labor has played in China's economic success. We then describe China's hukou policy, which divides China's labor force into two distinct segments, one composed of rural workers and the other of urban workers. For the rural labor force, we focus on the challenges of raising human capital by…
Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
China’s land reform in 1978–84 unleashed rapid growth in farm output and household income. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of male children following the reform. Among second births that followed a firstborn girl, sex ratios increased from 1.1 to 1.3 boys per girl in the 4 years following reform. Larger increases are found among families with more education. The land reform estimate i…
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Xinxiang, China
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is recognized as the liver disease component of metabolic syndrome, which is mainly related to insulin resistance and genetic susceptibility. It is the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide. With rapid lifestyle transitions, its prevalence worldwide is increasing, and tremendous challenges in controlling this pandemic are arising. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalen…
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…
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