Shaomin Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaomin Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaomin |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7296-084X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Functional Spatio-Temporal Statistical Model with Application to O3 Pollution in Beijing, China
In recent years, with rapid industrialization and massive energy consumption, ground-level ozone ( O 3 ) has become one of the most severe air pollutants. In this paper, we propose a functional spatio-temporal statistical model to analyze air quality data. Firstly, since the pollutant data from the monitoring network usually have a strong spatial and temporal correlation, the spatio-temporal statistical model is a reasonable method to reveal spat…
Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments
Drawing on twenty years of research and observations, Li explains how bribery and corruption are carried out in countries with weak institutional environments, and how these activities become globalized. By distinguishing rule-based, relation-based and clan-based governance, this book offers a novel explanation to the age-old puzzle of why some countries thrive despite corruption. It also sheds lights on the symbiotic roles corruption and anticor…
China’s intellectual property rights provocation
It is well recognized that intellectual property rights (IPR) violations are at the heart of the economic conflict with China. Little agreement, however, exists about the origin and solutions for this provocation. Broadly speaking, two prescriptions have been proposed: the natural evolutionary and the rule of law views. While both have merits and add to our understanding, they do not go far enough to address the more fundamental IPR policy issue:…
The cultural dividend
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the theoretical linkage between culture and economic growth and empirically test the relationship by measuring culture and how it affects labor productivity. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a cross-section study of developing countries and regresses economic productivity growth on a set of control variables and cultural factors. Findings It is found that three cultural factors, economic …
An Institutional Perspective on Religious Freedom and Economic Growth
The increase in religion-related conflicts around the world emphasizes the urgent need for a better understanding of the role of religion and religious freedom on socio-economic development, both theoretically and empirically. While studies on the role of religion on economic development have existed as early as Weber (1905), there is a dearth of studies on the effect of religious freedom on economic growth, and the existing studies overlook poss…
Why some countries thrive despite corruption
While it is widely accepted that corruption negatively affects economic growth, why some countries achieve rapid growth under rampant corruption remains a puzzle. This article sheds light on this issue by examining the role of trust in the corruption–efficiency relationship. It argues that in countries with a relatively low level of trust, corruption tends to be more predatory and inefficient than corruption in countries with a relatively high le…
The Transformation of Collectively Owned Enterprises and its Outcomes in China, 2001–05
The Roles and Performance of State Firms and Non-State Firms in China’s Economic Transition
Inter‐regime marriage and mobility
The recent increasing socioeconomic and political interactions between mainland China and Taiwan have resulted in a significant number of marriages between the two societies. Why do people cross the Strait to look for a marriage partner? What are the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of such marriages? And what impact do these marriages have on society as well as on the individuals involved? These are the issues we explore in this pap…
The Effect of Age Misreporting in China on the Calculation of Mortality Rates at Very High Ages
When mortality rates by age are calculated from recorded deaths and enumerated populations, rates at higher ages are typically in error because of misstated ages. Mortality rates for China in 1981 have been calculated from the number of deaths in 1981 in each household recorded in the 1982 census, and from the census population back-projected one year. Because age was determined from date of birth, and because persons of the Chinese culture have …
China's population policy
Measuring the fuzziness of human thoughts
Conventionally, sociologists measure the membership of an individual to a group by a “0 or 1” characteristic function. But when the definition of that group is fuzzy and an individual is neither a full member nor a nonmember, this dichotomous characteristic function may distort the reality. Instead of the “0 or 1” characteristic function by classical set theory, fuzzy set theory introduces a membership function which is a gradation from 0 to 1 to…
China's Population Control and Socio- economic Reforms
The Road to Freedom Can a Communist Society Evolve into a Democracy
Why some countries thrive despite corruption
While it is widely accepted that corruption negatively affects economic growth, why some countries achieve rapid growth under rampant corruption remains a puzzle. This article sheds light on this issue by examining the role of trust in the corruption–efficiency relationship. It argues that in countries with a relatively low level of trust, corruption tends to be more predatory and inefficient than corruption in countries with a relatively high le…
The Effect of Age Misreporting in China on the Calculation of Mortality Rates at Very High Ages
When mortality rates by age are calculated from recorded deaths and enumerated populations, rates at higher ages are typically in error because of misstated ages. Mortality rates for China in 1981 have been calculated from the number of deaths in 1981 in each household recorded in the 1982 census, and from the census population back-projected one year. Because age was determined from date of birth, and because persons of the Chinese culture have …
The Roles and Performance of State Firms and Non-State Firms in China’s Economic Transition
Inter‐regime marriage and mobility
The recent increasing socioeconomic and political interactions between mainland China and Taiwan have resulted in a significant number of marriages between the two societies. Why do people cross the Strait to look for a marriage partner? What are the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of such marriages? And what impact do these marriages have on society as well as on the individuals involved? These are the issues we explore in this pap…
The cultural dividend
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the theoretical linkage between culture and economic growth and empirically test the relationship by measuring culture and how it affects labor productivity. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a cross-section study of developing countries and regresses economic productivity growth on a set of control variables and cultural factors. Findings It is found that three cultural factors, economic …
China’s intellectual property rights provocation
It is well recognized that intellectual property rights (IPR) violations are at the heart of the economic conflict with China. Little agreement, however, exists about the origin and solutions for this provocation. Broadly speaking, two prescriptions have been proposed: the natural evolutionary and the rule of law views. While both have merits and add to our understanding, they do not go far enough to address the more fundamental IPR policy issue:…
The Transformation of Collectively Owned Enterprises and its Outcomes in China, 2001–05
An Institutional Perspective on Religious Freedom and Economic Growth
The increase in religion-related conflicts around the world emphasizes the urgent need for a better understanding of the role of religion and religious freedom on socio-economic development, both theoretically and empirically. While studies on the role of religion on economic development have existed as early as Weber (1905), there is a dearth of studies on the effect of religious freedom on economic growth, and the existing studies overlook poss…
Measuring the fuzziness of human thoughts
Conventionally, sociologists measure the membership of an individual to a group by a “0 or 1” characteristic function. But when the definition of that group is fuzzy and an individual is neither a full member nor a nonmember, this dichotomous characteristic function may distort the reality. Instead of the “0 or 1” characteristic function by classical set theory, fuzzy set theory introduces a membership function which is a gradation from 0 to 1 to…
The Road to Freedom Can a Communist Society Evolve into a Democracy
China's population policy
Measuring the fuzziness of human thoughts
Conventionally, sociologists measure the membership of an individual to a group by a “0 or 1” characteristic function. But when the definition of that group is fuzzy and an individual is neither a full member nor a nonmember, this dichotomous characteristic function may distort the reality. Instead of the “0 or 1” characteristic function by classical set theory, fuzzy set theory introduces a membership function which is a gradation from 0 to 1 to…
China's Population Control and Socio- economic Reforms
The Effect of Age Misreporting in China on the Calculation of Mortality Rates at Very High Ages
When mortality rates by age are calculated from recorded deaths and enumerated populations, rates at higher ages are typically in error because of misstated ages. Mortality rates for China in 1981 have been calculated from the number of deaths in 1981 in each household recorded in the 1982 census, and from the census population back-projected one year. Because age was determined from date of birth, and because persons of the Chinese culture have …
Inter‐regime marriage and mobility
The recent increasing socioeconomic and political interactions between mainland China and Taiwan have resulted in a significant number of marriages between the two societies. Why do people cross the Strait to look for a marriage partner? What are the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of such marriages? And what impact do these marriages have on society as well as on the individuals involved? These are the issues we explore in this pap…
The Roles and Performance of State Firms and Non-State Firms in China’s Economic Transition
The Transformation of Collectively Owned Enterprises and its Outcomes in China, 2001–05
Why some countries thrive despite corruption
While it is widely accepted that corruption negatively affects economic growth, why some countries achieve rapid growth under rampant corruption remains a puzzle. This article sheds light on this issue by examining the role of trust in the corruption–efficiency relationship. It argues that in countries with a relatively low level of trust, corruption tends to be more predatory and inefficient than corruption in countries with a relatively high le…
The cultural dividend
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the theoretical linkage between culture and economic growth and empirically test the relationship by measuring culture and how it affects labor productivity. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a cross-section study of developing countries and regresses economic productivity growth on a set of control variables and cultural factors. Findings It is found that three cultural factors, economic …
An Institutional Perspective on Religious Freedom and Economic Growth
The increase in religion-related conflicts around the world emphasizes the urgent need for a better understanding of the role of religion and religious freedom on socio-economic development, both theoretically and empirically. While studies on the role of religion on economic development have existed as early as Weber (1905), there is a dearth of studies on the effect of religious freedom on economic growth, and the existing studies overlook poss…
Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments
Drawing on twenty years of research and observations, Li explains how bribery and corruption are carried out in countries with weak institutional environments, and how these activities become globalized. By distinguishing rule-based, relation-based and clan-based governance, this book offers a novel explanation to the age-old puzzle of why some countries thrive despite corruption. It also sheds lights on the symbiotic roles corruption and anticor…
China’s intellectual property rights provocation
It is well recognized that intellectual property rights (IPR) violations are at the heart of the economic conflict with China. Little agreement, however, exists about the origin and solutions for this provocation. Broadly speaking, two prescriptions have been proposed: the natural evolutionary and the rule of law views. While both have merits and add to our understanding, they do not go far enough to address the more fundamental IPR policy issue:…
The Functional Spatio-Temporal Statistical Model with Application to O3 Pollution in Beijing, China
In recent years, with rapid industrialization and massive energy consumption, ground-level ozone ( O 3 ) has become one of the most severe air pollutants. In this paper, we propose a functional spatio-temporal statistical model to analyze air quality data. Firstly, since the pollutant data from the monitoring network usually have a strong spatial and temporal correlation, the spatio-temporal statistical model is a reasonable method to reveal spat…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Business (3 works)