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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
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relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit estimation since it is unlikely that the conditions necessary for … recovering the underlying individual preferences from household choices are satisfied in this setting. We propose a conceptual … relationships for household members of different ages to test the implications of our conceptual model. Respondents' choices take …
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As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high …
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of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal link between HAP exposure from the use of … solid fuel on depressive symptoms using a nationally representative dataset of middle-aged and older population in China …
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-capita basis a carbon price is much more regressive than calculations at the household level. We discuss policy options to offset …
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This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...
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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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human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …
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over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a … independently to completing a given number of years in school. Household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender … biases are a within-household phenomenon rather than an artefact of differences in unobservables across households. …
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reduce women's midlife employment but do not appear to affect say in household resource allocation. Women in their forties …
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