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Rates of Return to University Education: the Regression Discontinuity Design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515762
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Chinese Currency Controversies
Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper reviews the controversy over China’s exchange rate regime. Placing the issue in the context of the … literature on exit strategies, it argues that now is the best time for China to exit from its peg. Moving to a managed float …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067647
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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