Wenkai Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 4072124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenkai Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenkai |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Renmin University of China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4841-626X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of research funding on academic outputs
The winter depression
Security fosters generosity
Differential effects of a reading strategy intervention program for migrant children in migrant schools in China
Background There are over 14 million migrant children in the compulsory education system in China and the number has been increasing rapidly. However, the quality of education in schools for migrant children is often poor. Meanwhile, numerous studies indicated the importance of reading skills developed by the end of third grade. Few studies, however, have investigated the early reading development of migrant children in migrant schools in China. …
Information et comportement d'évitement
Les auteurs examinent les effets de la pollution sur l'offre de travail, sous un angle peu étudié: la publication d'informations sur la pollution. S'appuyant sur le lancement du programme national de publication des chiffres de la pollution atmosphérique en Chine, ils montrent, grâce à une analyse en doubles différences et à des données d'enquête sur les travailleurs migrants, que la publicité de ces données a entraîné une baisse significative du…
The effects of a summer reading program for migrant children in migrant schools
Construction and testing of the China's labor marketization index
In this paper we used two primary indicators and four secondary indicators to construct China's labor marketization index. We calculated the index at the prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2016 and tested its correlation with macroeconomic indicators. The results show that there has been much progress in labor marketization in China over the period, and the key to this progress is the quantity factor rather than the price factor. Progress in la…
Globalization or institution
Thanks to globalization, some countries achieve economic growth despite underdeveloped institutions, raising the issue of whether institutions or other factors might contribute more to economic growth. With settler mortality during colonization as an IV for current institutions of former colonies, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson found a tremendous, positive effect of institutions on economic performance. We argue that their study ignored an impor…
Re-examining economic returns to Communist Party membership in Mainland China
This article examines economic returns to Communist Party membership and its possible effects on other human capital, for college graduates in Mainland China. Different analytical methods return highly comparable results that suggest party membership has no direct effect on starting salaries of college graduates. However, party membership improves college graduates’ possibility of being admitted to Chinese universities for advanced studies and th…
Do Relative Income and Income Inequality Affect Consumption? Evidence from the Villages of Rural China
This article examines how a household's consumption rate is affected by its relative income and income inequality within a community. Based on the theory of social status seeking in consumption, we test hypotheses related to these factors using a unique panel data set of rural households in China observed within a few hundred villages between 2003 and 2006. We find that the household's consumption rate is negatively related to the relative income…
Do government actions affect social trust? Cross-city evidence in China
This paper examines the impact of government actions on social trust after controlling for individual and community characteristics. Using unique individual level data drawn from the provincial capital cities across China, we find that trust in other people is strongly correlated with government actions. Positive actions by the government that facilitate information flow, including active communication and information transparency, significantly …
Do government actions affect social trust? Cross-city evidence in China
This paper examines the impact of government actions on social trust after controlling for individual and community characteristics. Using unique individual level data drawn from the provincial capital cities across China, we find that trust in other people is strongly correlated with government actions. Positive actions by the government that facilitate information flow, including active communication and information transparency, significantly …
The winter depression
Re-examining economic returns to Communist Party membership in Mainland China
This article examines economic returns to Communist Party membership and its possible effects on other human capital, for college graduates in Mainland China. Different analytical methods return highly comparable results that suggest party membership has no direct effect on starting salaries of college graduates. However, party membership improves college graduates’ possibility of being admitted to Chinese universities for advanced studies and th…
Do government actions affect social trust? Cross-city evidence in China
This paper examines the impact of government actions on social trust after controlling for individual and community characteristics. Using unique individual level data drawn from the provincial capital cities across China, we find that trust in other people is strongly correlated with government actions. Positive actions by the government that facilitate information flow, including active communication and information transparency, significantly …
Do Relative Income and Income Inequality Affect Consumption? Evidence from the Villages of Rural China
This article examines how a household's consumption rate is affected by its relative income and income inequality within a community. Based on the theory of social status seeking in consumption, we test hypotheses related to these factors using a unique panel data set of rural households in China observed within a few hundred villages between 2003 and 2006. We find that the household's consumption rate is negatively related to the relative income…
Re-examining economic returns to Communist Party membership in Mainland China
This article examines economic returns to Communist Party membership and its possible effects on other human capital, for college graduates in Mainland China. Different analytical methods return highly comparable results that suggest party membership has no direct effect on starting salaries of college graduates. However, party membership improves college graduates’ possibility of being admitted to Chinese universities for advanced studies and th…
Globalization or institution
Thanks to globalization, some countries achieve economic growth despite underdeveloped institutions, raising the issue of whether institutions or other factors might contribute more to economic growth. With settler mortality during colonization as an IV for current institutions of former colonies, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson found a tremendous, positive effect of institutions on economic performance. We argue that their study ignored an impor…
The effects of a summer reading program for migrant children in migrant schools
Construction and testing of the China's labor marketization index
In this paper we used two primary indicators and four secondary indicators to construct China's labor marketization index. We calculated the index at the prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2016 and tested its correlation with macroeconomic indicators. The results show that there has been much progress in labor marketization in China over the period, and the key to this progress is the quantity factor rather than the price factor. Progress in la…
Differential effects of a reading strategy intervention program for migrant children in migrant schools in China
Background There are over 14 million migrant children in the compulsory education system in China and the number has been increasing rapidly. However, the quality of education in schools for migrant children is often poor. Meanwhile, numerous studies indicated the importance of reading skills developed by the end of third grade. Few studies, however, have investigated the early reading development of migrant children in migrant schools in China. …
Information et comportement d'évitement
Les auteurs examinent les effets de la pollution sur l'offre de travail, sous un angle peu étudié: la publication d'informations sur la pollution. S'appuyant sur le lancement du programme national de publication des chiffres de la pollution atmosphérique en Chine, ils montrent, grâce à une analyse en doubles différences et à des données d'enquête sur les travailleurs migrants, que la publicité de ces données a entraîné une baisse significative du…
The impact of research funding on academic outputs
The winter depression
Security fosters generosity
Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic system (2 works)