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Yang, Xintong; Gan, Li - In: China economic review : an international journal 60 (2020), pp. 1-23

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A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan

Fullerton, Don - 2014

Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...

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Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model

Gan, Li - 2007

This paper investigates to what extent and through which channels that health and educational attainment are interdependent. A dynamic model of schooling, work, health expenditure, and savings is developed. The structural framework explicitly models two existing hypotheses on the correlation...

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Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

Fullerton, Don - 2005

This paper uses an estimated demand system that accounts for heterogeneity to calculate and compare the lost consumer surplus from a higher tax on gasoline, a tax on distance, or a subsidy for buying a newer car. We introduce a view of cost-effectiveness that compares policies instead of...

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A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy

Gan, Li - 2005

A test of adverse events and strategic timing theories can be conducted by determining whether some relevant financial decision variables, such as financial benefit from filing for bankruptcy, or debt discharged in bankruptcy are endogenous with the bankruptcy decision or not. For the strategic...

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Relocating or Redefined : A New Perspective on Urbanization in China

Gan, Li - 2019

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China … important factor for the oversupply of residential housing units in China …

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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China

Gan, Li - 2006

major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results … show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a shock-hit household on average falls short of its normal income trajectory …. In addition, village elections reduce the probability of a household to borrow by 16.7% when one of its working adults is …

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Credit accessibility, institutional deficiency and entrepreneurship in China

Ma, Shuang; Wu, Xi; Gan, Li - In: China economic review : an international journal 54 (2019), pp. 160-175

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Information contents of collateral under heterogeneous borrower qualities on the bank loans market in China

Zhichao Yin; Qiu, Mei; Gan, Li - In: China economic review : an international journal 57 (2019), pp. 1-12

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Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes

Huang, Feng - 2015

At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical … Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a natural experiment … the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …

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