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We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other … countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to … vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as a destination for FDI also encourages FDI flows to other Asian …
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and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …
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We provide direct evidence of leverage-induced fire sales contributing to a market crash using account-level trading data for brokerage- and shadow-financed margin accounts during the Chinese stock market crash of 2015. Margin investors heavily sell their holdings when their account-level...
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Family planning plays a central role in contemporary population policies. However, little is known about its long-term consequences in old age because of the identification challenge. In this study, we examine how family planning affects the quality of life of the Chinese elderly. The direction...
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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We investigate the strength of the Penn effect in the most recent version of the Penn World Tables (PWTs). We find that the earlier findings of a Penn effect are confirmed, but that there is some evidence for nonlinearity. Developed and developing countries display different types of nonlinear...
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-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection bias, we use a regression discontinuity design that compares applicants …
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and China the loosest. The fraction of grants that are inconsistent with the office's own standard ranges from 2-6 per …
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Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of … both externalizing challenges (behavioral problems and aggression) and internalizing challenges (anxiety and withdrawal …
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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …
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