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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …

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The economic impact of non-communicable disease in China and India : estimates, projections, and comparisons

Bloom, David E.; Cafiero, Elizabeth T.; McGovern, Mark E.; … - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

; anthropometrics ; Hindu ; Muslim ; India …

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Education policies and practices : what have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar

Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …