Changes in Mate Choice in Chengdu

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51129/1/361.pd

Urbanism as a Chinese Way of Life

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66880/2/10.1177_002071528302400105.pd

Who Hates Bureaucracy? A Chinese Puzzle

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51105/1/337.pd

Evolutionary Changes in Chinese Culture

Also CSST Working Paper #14.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51140/1/372.pd

The Impact of China's Market Reforms on the Health of Chinese Citizens: Examining Two Puzzles

China's post-1978 market reforms were accompanied by a drastic decline in the coverage of the Chinese population by medical insurance as well as by sharp increases in charges for medical treatments, tests, and prescriptions. Since the 1990s, these trends have produced widespread condemnation of the current Chinese medical care system for being too costly and unequal. This article attempts to answer two questions: 1) Why did changes in the healthcare system precipitated by market reforms not lead to the kind of deterioration in the health of Chinese citizens that market reforms produced in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? 2) In view of the increased inequalities in access to, and insurance coverage for, medical care since 1978, and particularly the growing rural-urban gap, why do Chinese villagers and migrants rate their current health better than do urban citizens?Sociolog

Popular Response to China's Fertility Transition

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51109/1/341.pd

Competitive and Information Effects of Cross‐Border Stock Listings

We examine the effect of 269 cross-border listings on rivals in the listing and domestic markets and find that U.S. rivals experience significant gains whereas domestic rivals do not. Both competitive and information effects are important in explaining the reaction of U.S. rivals. Regarding the competitive effects, the reaction of rivals is less favorable when listings originate in developed countries and more favorable when listing firms do not have prior operating presence in the United States. Regarding the information effects, the reaction is less favorable when listings are combined with equity offerings and more favorable when the listing is the first to occur within an industry

Suboptimal Institutions but Superior Growth: The Puzzle of China's Economic Boom

Sociolog