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An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
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In what order should a developing country adopt policy reforms? Do some policies complement each other? Do others substitute for each other? To address these questions, we develop a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with entry and exit of firms that are monopolistic competitors. The...
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may affect policy learning and policy outcomes. We aim to describe and understand China's policy experimentation since … conducted in China over the past four decades. We find three main results. First, more than 80% of the experiments exhibit … national policies originating from the experimentation. Taken together, these results suggest that while China's bureaucratic …
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This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new …
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best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …
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added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
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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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forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
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