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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles
Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
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Household Finance in China
Cooper, Russell - 2017
This paper uses a lifecycle model to study household finance in China, focusing on the high savings rate, the low stock … market participation rate and the low share of stocks in wealth. We control for important regime changes in China in the … financial choices of households in China are driven by institutional factors, such as labor market risks and costs of asset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453970
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457909
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - 2013
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459233
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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
Curtis, Chadwick C. - 2011
This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461829
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Hukou and Guanxi : How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China
Zhuge, Liqun; Lang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Hukou, China's household registration system, affects access to public services and signals the strength of a person …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287338
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, H. Naci - 2000
China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471094
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Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity : The Case of Air Toxics Standards
Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Langer, Ashley; Zhang, Wendan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Legislation often empowers agencies to develop rules, but legal challenges may create uncertainty, thereby increasing firm costs, delaying policy objectives, and affecting externalities. This paper investigates policy uncertainty surrounding the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, estimating a...
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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows
Goldstein, Itay - 2008
We examine the choice between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment at the level of the source country. Based on a theoretical model, we predict that (1) source countries with higher probability of aggregate liquidity crises export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464879
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Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006 : A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variabl...
Sosa-Rubi, Sandra G. - 2007
Objective: We evaluated the impact of Seguro Popular (SP), a program introduced in 2001 in Mexico primarily to finance health care for the poor. We studied the effect of SP on pregnant women's access to obstetrical services. Data: We analyzed the cross-sectional 2006 National Health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465148