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Asset poverty in the United States : its persistence in an expansionary economy
Caner, Asena (contributor); Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2004
Economic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003354770
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Occupation and Industrial Mobility in the United States 1969-93
Parrado, Eric; Caner, Asena; Wolff, Edward N. - 2005
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate occupational and industrial mobility of individuals over the 1969-80 and 1981-93 periods in the United States. We find that workers changed both occupations and industries more frequently in the later period. For example, occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066301
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Why are saving rates so high in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934967
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Why are saving rates so high in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - 2011
existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic … structure ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126989
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China : identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han … likely confounded by other omitted policy shocks or socioeconomic changes. Moreover, we conduct the DD estimation using both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989746
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China : Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han … likely confounded by other omitted policy shocks or socioeconomic changes. Moreover, we conduct the DD estimation using both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138734
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Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
Fan, Yi - 2019
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858483
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Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
Fan, Yi - 2019
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858654
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039591