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The Institutional Foundations of China’s Reforms and Development
Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look … ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper … analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over …
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … participation and democracy in China, increased trust in government officials, and a more skeptical view of free markets. …
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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility
Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....
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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions
Gautier, Pieter A; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854483
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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L; Tamura, Yuji - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father’s temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...
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Persistent anti-market culture: A legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust
Grosfeld, Irena; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Zhuravskaya, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement, the area which Jewish residents were confined to in the Russian Empire, is used as a source of exogenous...
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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(Un)Happiness in Transition
Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that...
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