Sylvie Démurger

TL;DR: This article provided empirical evidence on the links between infrastructure investment and economic growth in China using panel data from a sample of 24 Chinese provinces (excluding municipalities) throughout the 1985 to 1998 period, the estimation of a growth model shows that besides differences in terms of reforms and openness, geographical location and infrastructure endowment did account significantly for observed differences in growth performance across provinces.

TL;DR: This article decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996–99, and their respective contributions in percentage points were 2.5 and 3.3 for the northeastern provinces, 2.8 and 2.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth, and found that economic growth may conversely influence the inflows of foreign capital, and emphasized the importance of potential growth in foreign investment decisions.

TL;DR: This paper decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996, and their respective contributions in percentage points were 2.5 and 3.5 for the province-level metropolises, 0.6 and 2.3 for the northeastern provinces, 2.8 and 2

TL;DR: In this article, the authors decompose the difference between urban and rural migrant earnings into four sources, with particular attention to path-dependence and statistical distribution of the estimated effects: (1) different allocation to sectors that pay different wages (sectoral effect), (2) hourly wage disparities across the two populations within sectors (wage effect); (3) different working times within sectors, working time effect); and (4) different population structures (population effect).