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For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
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mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …
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We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in … China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average … prevalence of child labor in China exhibits significant regional variations. The child labor incidence is correlated with the …
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China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two … children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor market consequences of China's family planning … policies. First, we briefly review the major historical evolution of China's family planning policies. Second, we investigate …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China …
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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China …
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unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …
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Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
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This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor …
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