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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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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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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
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agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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as Japan, newly industrialized economies (NIEs) in East Asia, and recently the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Viet …
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Deflationary expansion has puzzled economists both in and outside China. We study this business cycles phenomenon … variables. The high steady state of growth could be explained by the current institutional environment of China. …
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At the beginning of transition from the socialist planning economy to a market economy, China did not have a modern … economics profession and the contribution of modern economics to China's transition was little. However, there has been …, the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University was built in 1994 with the initial supports and …
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Since the economic reforms began in 1978, China has achieved remarkable economic results. Real GDP per capita grew at …
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use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique …
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