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subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which …
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Many empirical studies have examined various determinants of crime. However, the link between crime and air pollution has been surprisingly overlooked despite several potential pathways. In this paper, we study whether exposure to ambient air pollution affects crime by using daily administrative...
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representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure significantly reduce cognitive ability in women, particularly those …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
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This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …
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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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-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China …, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of interest are defined as the inverse of both …
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) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data (n = 6530) for this paper. Logistic … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …
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We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to...
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