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Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
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Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752085
This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months).This feature allows us to...
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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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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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. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …
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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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-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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randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …, opportunities as well as development finances in Africa's transformation. We review critical parts of China's transformation to see …
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