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China, Europe & Great Divergence (ICPSR 105383)

Released/updated on: 2018-08-13
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 0980-01-01--1850-01-01
This is the replication package for  "China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical national Accounting". As a result of recent advances in historical national accounting, estimates of GDP per capita are now available for a number of European economies back to the medieval period, including Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. The approach has also been extended to Asian economies, including India and Japan. So far, however, China, which has been at the center of the Great Divergence debate, has been absent from this approach. This paper adds China to the picture and shows that the Great Divergence began earlier than originally suggested by the California School, but later than implied by older Eurocentric writers.
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China GDP: Some Corrections (ICPSR 141782)

Released/updated on: 2021-06-02
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 0980-01-01--1840-01-01
Historical GDP estimates for China by Broadberry, Guan, and Li are problematic because of an implausible series for government expenditure. Revised estimates reduce GDP per capita, mainly during the Ming, by up to a third. Two peaks in income now stand out: the Song efflorescence and the years around 1700. If the latter peak is real, comparisons of the Yangzi delta with leading European countries show a Great Crossing in the middle ages, a Great Convergence in the seventeenth century, and a Great Divergence in the eighteenth. Otherwise, the Great Divergence may date from the sixteenth century.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Business Dynamism, Reallocation, and Growth: Evidence from China" (ICPSR 245028)

Released/updated on: 2026-03-31
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 2005-01-01--2013-01-01
This archive contains the data, code, and documentation to reproduce the main empirical results in “Business Dynamism, Reallocation, and Growth: Evidence from China.”
The code in this replication package constructs the analysis file from the several data sources using Stata. Some data cannot be made publicly available.
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ECIN Replication Package for "High-Stakes Examinations and Educational Inequality: Evidence from Transitory Exposure to Air Pollution" (ICPSR 183261)

Released/updated on: 2022-12-16
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 2014-01-01--2019-01-01
Using unique data that track college students’ performance over multiple high-stakes tests, we study the impact of transitory random disturbances to student cognitive performance and a minimum-passing-score policy on access to graduate education. Exploiting thermal inversions as an instrumental variable and individual fixed effects, we document significant adverse cognitive effects of transitory exposure to air pollution during the exam, which vary considerably by pollution level, exam section, student academic ability, and gender. We further show that the harmful cognitive effects permanently reduce students’ chances of getting into graduate school, especially for marginal students who scored just below the minimum passing score. Marginal students would be less affected by random disturbances and have more equal access to graduate education had such an exam policy not been adopted.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Pandemic exposure and long-run psychological well-being" (ICPSR 187781)

Released/updated on: 2023-08-02
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 2003-01-01--2018-01-01
Using individuals’ life history information from a large-scale national survey (N = 12,601), we causally evaluate how exposure to SARS-Cov-1, the first global pandemic in the 21st century, affects long-term psychological well-being. We find that exposure to local pandemic risk, i.e., local deaths due to the pandemic, significantly reduced people’s mental health 12 years later. Consistent with the belief-based account of depression, exposure to pandemic risk resulted in more pessimistic beliefs about the future and survival probability. People reduced savings and increased hedonic consumption, suggesting a “carpe diem” effect of the pandemic exposure.
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ECIN Replication Package for "State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policies: Firm-level Evidence" (ICPSR 224384)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-19
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 2001-01-01--2009-01-01
We employ Chinese firm-level data to examine the interconnections among firm ownership, environmental regulation, and non-environmental economic policies. We find that there are substantial differences between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs) in response to government anti-pollution mandates. SOEs reduced emissions more than POEs, with the former relying mainly on abatement investment and the latter on reducing outputs. An average POE’s marginal abatement cost is more than nine times that of an average SOE, suggesting significant inefficiencies in policy implementation. Policies liberalizing financial markets could affect POEs’ abatement costs and improve the cost-effectiveness of environmental policies.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Understanding Spillover of Peer Parental Education: Randomization Evidence and Mechanisms" (ICPSR 183102)

Released/updated on: 2022-12-23
Geographic coverage: China
The educational background of peer parents is more than a proxy for peer quality. We utilize random classroom assignments in China middle schools to study the spillover of peer parental education on the student test score. Analyzing the China Education Panel Survey, we find a causal relationship between the average college attainment of classmates' mothers and a student's test score. In addition to peer quality and teacher response, we identify the change in the mother's parenting style as an alternative mediating factor. The parental responses (time/money investment, and parenting style) also differ by family background, leading to heterogeneous spillover on the test score.
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Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution (ICPSR 193723)

Released/updated on: 2023-09-15
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 1953-01-01--2000-01-01
This is the replication package for "Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution". 

Abstract: 

As a multi-faceted socio-political movement in twentieth-century China, the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) witnessed conflict and social upheaval. This paper investigates its economic legacies, exploiting geographic variation in revolutionary intensity, measured by the number of resulting deaths. Using a newly assembled county-level panel dataset over five decades, we find worse-affected areas performed slightly better at baseline, but were slower to industrialize. This effect was large in the early 1980s before diminishing to become insignificant by 2000. Using individual-level census data, we find more-exposed cohorts are less likely to obtain higher education degrees and to work in professional and entrepreneurial occupations.
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Replication Files for " The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933" (ICPSR 144321)

Released/updated on: 2021-07-01
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 1920-05-01--1933-04-09
This is the replication package for The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933. It primarily contains data for the Chinese domestic exchange markets from 1920 to 1933, as well as supplementary code needed for the paper.




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Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900 (ICPSR 219543)

Released/updated on: 2025-02-16
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 1300-01-01--1900-01-01
This paper studies the strength of the relationship between parental income and child income over the period 1300 to 1900, when many social changes, such as the erosion of hereditary class barriers, took place. The rich information in genealogies are used to examine social mobility across a representative socioeconomic population of ranging from commoners to elites. The results indicate, first, that intergenerational mobility in this sample population changed over time. Second, the changes correspond to a substantially higher level of mobility in the 19th century compared to the 17th century. Third, an inverse correlation between mobility and inequality can be seen in the time-series, implying social mobility for birth cohorts characterized by high inequality tends to be low, and vice versa.