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School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India

Dercon, Stefan; Park, Albert; Singh, Abhijeet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores...

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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 3, pp. 687-708

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Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Cai, Hongbin; Li, Hongbin; Park, Albert; Zhou, Li-An - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 850-867

Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more...

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The dynamics of catch-up and skill and technology upgrading in China

Chen, Xi; Funke, Michael - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PB, pp. 465-480

This paper accounts for China’s economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing … of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China’s aggregate income … can generate a trajectory that accords well with the different stages of development in China. …

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Real-Time Warning Signs of Emerging and Collapsing Chinese House Price Bubbles

Chen, Xi; Funke, Michael - In: National Institute Economic Review 223 (2013) 1, pp. 39-39

The recent increase in Chinese house prices has led to concerns that China is vulnerable to asset price shocks. In this … disconnected from fundamentals. Thus, the evidence for speculative house price bubbles in China is in general weak. …

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Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Cai, Hongbin; Li, Hongbin; Park, Albert; Zhou, Li-An - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship …

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Assessing the CNH-CNY pricing differential : role of fundamentals, contagion and policy

Funke, Michael; Shu, Chang; Cheng, Xiaoqiang; Eraslan, … - In: Journal of international money and finance 59 (2015), pp. 245-262

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Weathering a Storm : Survey-Based Perspectives on Employment in China in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

Giles, John - 2012

demand for migrant labor. By early 2010, abundant evidence pointed to scarcity in China's labor market, as labor demand was …

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Patterns and Correlates of Intergenerational Non-Time Transfers : Evidence from CHARLS

Lei, Xiaoyan - 2012

Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of … source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their … than their younger brothers. With future continued rapid economic growth in China, the income disadvantage of the elderly …

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