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When Industrial Policy Meets Comparative Advantage: Lessons from “Made in China 2025”
Xiuping Hua, Yong Wang, Junjie Xia, Haochen Zhang, Jan 28, 2026In this paper, the authors contribute to this debate through the lens of a novel perspective: the congruence between firm’s factor input structures and local endowment structures.
From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools
Eric A. Hanushek, Le Kang, Xueying Li, Lei Zhang, Jan 21, 2026Rural school quality is low and varies significantly across provinces. We estimate provincial variations in school quality from the labor market returns to years of schooling of interprovincial rural migrants educated in different home provinces but working in the same urban labor market. School quality is higher and provincial variation is lower for younger cohorts, indicating at least partial effectiveness of recent policies aimed at improving the quality of rural schools.
Learning by Trading: How Reforming Trade Policy Boosted Firm Productivity in China
Yunong Li, Yi Lu, Jianguo Wang, Jan 14, 2026In China, granting firms the right to trade internationally boosted productivity, with gains growing over time and shared with workers through higher wages.
Robots as Guardians: How Automation Has Made Chinese Workplaces Safer
Wei Luo, Lixin Tang, Yaxin Yang, Xianqiang Zou, Feb 03, 2026Industrial robots are often discussed primarily in terms of their employment effects. New evidence from China shows that automation has also delivered substantial improvements in workplace safety, with sharp reductions in accidents and fatalities.
The Narrowing Path: Trade and Development in a New Era
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Michele Ruta, Feb 11, 2026International trade will continue to be important for economic performance..
