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How Do You Feel? The Effect of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China

Milcent, Carine; Wu, Binzhen - HAL - 2013

During the 2003-2006 period, subjective health status in Chinese rural areas improved. We used a unique household longitudinal survey to analyze how the introduction of a public insurance system has contributed to the change. This program is based on a doubly voluntary process: counties decide...

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Two-Period Comparison of Healthcare Demand with Income Growth and Population Aging in Rural China: Implications for Adjustment of the Healthcare Supply and Development

Audibert, Martine; He, Yong; Mathonnat, Jacky - HAL - 2013

We estimate the evolution of healthcare demand under the influence of income growth and population aging with two samples of patients surveyed in the same regions, but with an interval of 18 years in rural China and with mixed logit to deal with heterogeneity. In accordance with theoretical and...

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Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Yang, Weiyong - HAL - 2006

This paper uses provincial macro-data from the mid 1980s onwards to investigate the determinants of land-use choice in rural China, by paying particularattention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture. The evidence supports the importance of economic motivations in the...

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Diversification and agrarian change under environmental constraints in rural China: Evidence from a poor township of Beijing municipality

Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; Weiyong, Yang - HAL - 2007

This article illustrates the impact of changes related to market reforms and environmental policies on the economic structure in rural China by providing a comparative analysis of several villages in a poor township in Beijing municipality. Two main concomitant phenomena are affecting...

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Heterogeneity of the effects of health insurance on household savings: Evidence from rural China

Cheung, Diana; Padieu, Ysaline - HAL - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on household saving across income quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least squares regression. We control for the endogeneity of...

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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Accumulation of Capital: The Role of Heterogeneous Labor Productivity

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - HAL - 2012

We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …

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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007

level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …

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Des figures et des chiffres : Analyse de Pour une révolution fiscale, de Landais, Piketty et Saez (2011)

Guiard, Yves - HAL - 2012

On the website of their recent book Pour une Revolution Fiscale, Landais, Piketty and Saez (2011) have provided the public with free access to all their quantitative data, inviting the readership to critically appraise and publicly discuss their work. Unfortunately, the book's graphical...

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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference?

Gravel, Nicolas; Moyes, Patrick - HAL - 2011

We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of...

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Who Really Benefits from Pension Systems?

Hachon, Christophe - HAL - 2008

A growing empirical literature shows that life expectancy depends on the wage level. Using an overlapping generations model with a small open economy, we explain why this result can change theredistributive properties of unfunded pension systems. We use the concept of "net contribution" to...

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