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Making Reform Work: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in Rural China / Fang, Wang ; Shuo, Chen ; Xiao, Ma

Fang, Wang	Journal Article
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Why are some reforms successfully adopted while others are not? This article addresses the question by exploring the variation in the adoption of China's "One-Issue-One-Meeting" reform. The reform, initiated by the central government in 2000, encourages rural villages to voluntarily adopt a new governing procedure that seeks to enhance local public goods provision. Using data from the 2005 Chinese General Social Survey, the authors find that villages with a more homogenous population measured by surname fractionalisation are more likely to adopt the procedure. Applying a generalised spatial two-stage least squares estimation, the authors also found a spatial spillover effect of the reform: the likelihood of a village undertaking the reform increases when its neighbouring villages also do so, and such effect is more pronounced if the neighbouring village is economically better off. This suggests a potential learning mechanism underlying the neighbourhood spillover.

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Rural China ; Reform Work ; Quasi-Natural Experiment

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Migration aspirations and polymorphic identifications of the homeland: (im)mobility trajectories amongst Chinese international students amidst COVID-19 / Xiao, Ma; Wang, Bingyu ; Xuesong, He

Xiao, Ma	Journal Article
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Drawing on longitudinal research with 33 Chinese international students in 10 European countries, this article examines their polymorphic identifications towards homeland and asks how these changing perceptions constitute the underlying logic of their particular migration aspirations during the COVID-19. Specifically, the article explores how homeland identifications function as a driving force to facilitate ‘voluntary immobility’ in the study destination while being used as a tackling strategy to adapt to their ‘involuntary immobility’ overseas. It also examines how these identifications articulate with the students’ mixing and shifting migration aspirations formulated during the pandemic. In doing so, the article demonstrates that polymorphic perceptions closely relate to the generation, exercise and reproduction of their migration aspirations that are temporally distributed.

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Chinese ; International Students ; Migration Aspirations ; (Im)mobility ; COVID - 19 ; Homeland Identifications

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