Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that
may otherwise be suppressed. Protests have produced change at local, national, and …

We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect
impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals when they violate pollution …

Recent scholarship has suggested that artificial intelligence (AI) technology and autocratic
regimes may be mutually reinforcing. We test for a mutually reinforcing relationship in the …

This paper studies the impact of the US-China tariff war on China, using high-frequency
night lights data and grid-level measures of tariff exposure. Exploiting within-grid variation …

We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low.
Local elections exploit citizens' informational advantage in kee** local officials …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within
the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO …

This paper investigates how households adjust to local labor market shocks caused by
import tariff liberalization in China. Exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts …

We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative
decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by …

Industrial robots can improve workplace safety by performing hazardous tasks on behalf of
workers. This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on workplace safety in China …

The fintech (financial technology) employment market presents significant barriers to entry,
including rigorous selection criteria based on factors such as profitability, risk, security, and …