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The paper aims at understanding changes in the distribution and accumulation of intellectual capital by analyzing migrants' educational profiles across a sample of 303 U.S. counties. The results suggest that newcomers are better educated than the resident population, and the education gap is...
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Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of Agriculture ABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...
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Human capital has been identified as significant determinant of farm size growth. However, there are numerous measures for human capital. Traditional measures include age, experience, and education of the principal operator and a management measure. This study identifies three types of...
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Land reforms in India were aimed at securing access to land for poor rural households. We use data from West Bengal to highlight the impact of the state’s 1978 land reform program on human capital accumulation within the beneficiary households. The results from the study indicate that reform...
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This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …
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employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor … pool affected the location decision of food processing firms in China. The result supports recent literature that the food …
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believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight … issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with respect to food eating locations and other socio-economic and …
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imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …
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of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric … study period has led to an economic loss of $220 million in 2009 alone in China’s corn and soybean sectors. Corn yields in … China are predicted to decrease by 2-5% under the slowest warming scenario and by 5-15% under the fastest warming scenario …
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