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Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to chronic disease, disability, and late life mortality. The focus here is on research methods, findings, and questions that economists...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967149

Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Li, Hongbin; Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

In this paper, we use new survey data on twins born in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357724

Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter- Generational Support in Urban China

Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

We use unique data characterizing individual Savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors. …

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Structural Change in Russian Transition

Gregory, Paul R.; Lazarev, Valery - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper examines structural change in the Russian economy in 1990-2001, as measured by the changing composition of output and consumption, using international panel data sets as a frame of reference. It calculates a series of indexes to determine the extent to which the Russian economy is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738364

As the Century Turns: Analytics, Empirics and Politics of Development

Srinivasan. T.N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

The paper celebrates John Fei's life and contributions to economics by viewing them in the context of recent theoretical and empirical literature on the economics and politics of growth. It summarizes the lessons from the literature and development experience since the end of the second world...

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Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to "Stop-and-Go"?

Ranis, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper raises the question whether the current wave of macro-economic and structural reforms in Latin America should be viewed as a decisive change in the Continent's long-term development strategy or as part of but another stop-go cycle for which the Continent has been known in the past.

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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right

Srinivasan, T. N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...

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On the Development of Rotating Credit Associations in Japan.

Hamada, K.; Dekle, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

While economic growth raises income and wealth and promotes financial intermediation, financial intermediation facilitates economic growth, since it raises the returns to investment. In this article we study the development of an important informal financial intermediary in Japan, the rotating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256231

As the Century Turns: Analytics, Empirics and Politics of Development

Srinivasan, T. N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146673

The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Karlan, Dean; Berry, James; Pradhan, Menno - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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