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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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This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. …
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This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
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One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …
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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … the credibility of the IV by emphasizing the unique institutional context of rural-urban migration in China and focusing …
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Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …
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