Policy Experimentation in China

Shaoda Wang, David Y. Yang. 2025. “Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning.” Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy. Check the authors’ websites for the posted paper: http://www.sdwang.org/ http://davidyyang.com/ Since the 1980s, the Chinese government has routinely trialed a wide array of policies at the local level before deciding whether to expand them nationally. This paper describes and explains China’s policy experimentation, among the largest and most systematic in recent history. About this channel: econimate® is a YouTube channel aimed at making economics research accessible and engaging. What questions do economists ask, how do they answer them, and how does this research help explain the world around us? http://www.econimate.com/ Created by Hoai-Luu Nguyen Video uses “WritingMarker” by fastson licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...