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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...
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differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural … sector has “caused” growing wage inequality; and (2b) how residual government control in a few industrial sectors has … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …
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The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …
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