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This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
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"This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …
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neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …
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global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …
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We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
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This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of …
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This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …
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There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the individual's environment playing a significant role. Consequently, it is crucial to understand the enduring effects of early life circumstances on health in old age. In this study,...
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