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regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Aerosol …
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. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey …
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China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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This paper discusses evidence on human capital investment in China. Policies through the mid 1990s favor physical …
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To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
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This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...
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