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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

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It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Qin, Ping - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

high growth, increased inequality, and the highest urban-rural income ratio in the world. Thus, the rural population, which …

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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …

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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and...

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Can Stated Preference Methods Accurately Predict Responses to Environmental Policies? The Case of a Plastic Bag Regulation in China

He, Haoran - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

This study investigates the validity of using stated preference (SP) estimates to predict policy effects on plastic bag consumption. Before implementation of a plastic bag regulation, when bags were still free of charge, we utilized an SP survey to elicit consumers’ contingent bag consumption...

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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490332

Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070428

Session Size and its Effect on Identity Building: Evidence from a public goods experiment

Weng, Qian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

The effect of session size has largely been ignored in experimental studies, despite the possibility that it may play a role by changing people’s perception of the potential chance of encountering a certain type of people and by affecting the strength of the potential link between people. This...

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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466474