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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457366
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Our study focuses on exploring the impact of air pollution on household investment in children's education in China …. Air pollution poses a significant risk to some cities in northern China. We have used panel data from secondary schools in … point decrease in the likelihood of parents spending on their children's education. The impact of air pollution on household …
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the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …
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This paper examines the relationship between planning for overseas education and household saving behaviour in China … for a sample of household drawn from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) covering 2011, 2013 and 2015. Household … saving behaviour is captured by the amount of household savings and the role of planning for overseas education is …
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production and peasant's family, to calculate the returns of education investment on the whole family's income. The intra-household … member's education on household income. The externalities, together with marriage match in education, however, decrease the … return as the number of household member investing in education increases, which may result in ldquo;literacy congestionrdquo …
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This paper explores how the anticipated expenditure on children's college education affects household asset allocation …, applying a two-stage budgeting model of asset demand by using the 2016 China Family Panel Studies Data (CFPS). The empirical … results show that if a household plans to send a child to college, the probability of holding risky assets increases by 1 …
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The link between air pollution and human health is well-documented in the epidemiology and economic literature. Recently, an increasing body of research has shown that air pollution-even in relatively low doses-also affects educational outcomes across several distinct age groups and varying...
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