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Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility

Wang, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

to desire fewer children and thus, receives lighter pressure from the policy. Other than fertility, a woman would delay …The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the …

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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Song, Lina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...

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Siblings, public facilities and education returns in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in …

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A selection analysis on education returns in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...

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Are all migrants really worse off in urban labour markets: new empirical evidence from China.

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants....

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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?

Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...

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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

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Embodied human capital unemployment

Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...

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Will India become a world economy power?

Incaltarau, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

India's economic rise during the last decades has surprised most of the economists, including the Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. Which are the ingredients of such an economic roadmap and why hasn’t India's economy boosted along with those of the "Asian tigers" during the 80s or later, with...

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The Literary Inquisition: The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China

Koyama, Mark; Xue, Melanie Meng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examinees at the provincial and prefectural level. To...

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