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Insider Privatization with a Tail : The Buyout Price and Performance of Privatized Firms in Rural China
Li, Hongbin; Rozelle, Scott - 2003
This paper studies insider privatization in transition economies. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of incentives after privatization. A screening theory predicts that a firm's postprivatization incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107516
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The Impact of a Senior High School Tuition Relief Program on Poor Junior High School Students in Rural China
Chen, Xinxin - 2018
students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938156
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The Effect of Maternal Migration on Early Childhood Development in Rural China
Yue, Ai - 2016
Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976971
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The Returns to Education in China : Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law
Fang, Hai - 2012
As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104400
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Symposium on Agriculture in Transition : Why Did the Communist Party Reform in China, but Not in the Soviet Union? The Political Economy of Agricultural Transition
Rozelle, Scott; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2009
The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor, have been affected by radical reforms in agriculture. However, there are enormous differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561911
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The Returns to Education in China : Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law
Fang, Hai - 2012
As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460471
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The Sequencing of Reform Policies in China's Agricultural Transition
de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2015
This paper provides evidence regarding gains due to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically … identify the different effects that incentive and farm restructuring reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070028
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Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism : Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform
de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify … the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China's agricultural economy during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109448
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The impact of a senior high school tuition relief program on poor junior high schoolstudents in rural China
Chen, Xinxin; Shi, Yaojiang; Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2013
students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693211
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Extracting leading indicators of bank fragility from market prices : Estonia focus
Chen, Yu-Fu (contributor); Funke, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks ́fragility scores during transition. To this end we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300957