Can standard business-cycle methodology be applied to China? In this chapter, we address this question by examining the … macroeconomic time series and identifying dimensions in which China differs from economies (such as Canada and the U.S.) that are … typically the subject of business-cycle research. We show that naively applying the standard business-cycle tools to China is no …

nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and … nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been … county-level corn yields from 1980 to 2015 in conjunction with data on adoption of genetically engineered crops, weather, and … genetically engineered crops have increased yields above trend. There is marked heterogeneity in the effect of adoption of …

-running index-based livestock insurance contract in Northern Kenya. We show that compared to the currently employed administrative …

the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental …

. The model is a continuous time, competing risk, interacting population model supporting alignment to existing population … technology developed and maintained at Statistics Canada. The model has a graphical user interface allowing the editing of …

, despite population aging, increase by 16.2 percent in the age groups 15 to 74 (corresponding to 25.2 million workers) between …In the what-if scenarios, we examine the implications of improvements in the educational structure of the population …

of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … the supply side of labor markets, we discuss key features of the interrelations between population growth and the labor … force. These include the lags between population growth and labor force participation; the independent effects on labor …