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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; … - 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...

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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...

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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Park, Albert; Wang, Dewen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

Strauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the …

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