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largest online platforms in China. Our data reveals that, due to the effects of the pandemic both in China and abroad, the … China by 11.7%. We also find that Chinese firms most exposed to international trade outperformed other firms at the …
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education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world …. College admission in China is governed by a single exam--the national college entrance exam, and the government sets admission …
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This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …
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admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the universe of firm registration records in China. Within a college, we find …
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Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist … school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental …, and incremental nature of China's reforms. Specifically, the resulting non-capitalist institutions are said to be …
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accounted for roughly half of the increase in sex ratios in rural China from 1978-86, or about 1 million missing girls …
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China's emerging labor market was buffeted by changes in demand and supply and institutional changes in the last two … entered the job market under more or less favorable conditions. On this dimension, China's labor market seems more flexible … than those in other countries. Three related factors may explain this pattern: (1) the rapid growth of China's economy; (2 …
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the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China's high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the …
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