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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
methods that exploit unique panel data on young twins in China. The estimates indicate that higher levels of schooling …
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was … China Family Panel Study to study determinants of the decision to enroll in NRPS, premiums paid, and time taken to enroll …
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …
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Jobs and Kids : Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Fang, Hai - 2010
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462764
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Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy : The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
Qian, Nancy - 2009
plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463676
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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China
Gan, Li - 2006
Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465975
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Family Companionship and Elderly Suicide : Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year
Fang, Hanming; Lei, Ziteng; Lin, Liguo; Zhang, Peng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Mental health problems among the elderly have attracted increasing attention. The most serious mental health problems may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496120
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459417
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Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor : Evidence from Kenya's Western Province
Dupas, Pascaline - 2012
Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. In this paper, we combine experimental and survey evidence from Western Kenya to document some of the supply and demand factors behind such low levels of financial inclusion. Our experiment had two parts. In the first part, we waived the...
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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state
Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...
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