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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
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the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in … significant impact stems from domestic remittances. -- migration ; remittances ; schooling ; child labour ; panel data ; Vietnam …
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education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam … ; labour market transitions ; unemployment ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; child labour laws ; Vietnam War draft …
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Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing … provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong performance. After making various parametric and non …-parametric corrections for potentially non-representative PISA samples, including bias due to Vietnam's large out-of-school population …
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Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...
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We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above-ceiling lands. These ceiling legislations, effectively...
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Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
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quality indicators. The estimation results validate well against objective measures based on benchmark surveys for Ethiopia …
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