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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 245-260
development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic …
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Health, Human Capital, and Development
Bleakley, Hoyt - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 283-310
How much does disease depress development in human capital and income around the world? I discuss a range of micro evidence, which finds that health is both human capital itself and an input to producing other forms of human capital. I use a standard model to integrate these results and suggest...
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124182
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Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania
Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Calogero - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 870-880
This paper examines the role of migration in affecting the labour market opportunities of male and female household members left behind. We address this question by analyzing the impact of international migration flows from Albania, where migration is a massive and male-dominated phenomenon. We...
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Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China
Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak Wai; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 494-504
This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors collected from urban China …. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of schooling increases an individual's earnings by 8.4%. If we use … that it may be a consequence of China's education system, which is highly selective and exam oriented. More specifically …
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Risk aversion and son preference : experimental evidence from Chinese twin parents
Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 8, pp. 3896-3910
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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