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; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
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In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
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each other, set off a race between their autochthonous state-building projects, which determines their extent and … developed into independent states, as agriculture provided the fertile ground for state-formation, while isolation provided time … reproducing a mega-state in the area that became China and on the determinants of its borders with other states. …
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Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been … examine the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution …-level panel data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected … pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college … possible explanation is that the choice of college education causally impacts whether and whom one marries, either because of …
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. Individuals that reached college age shortly after the coup experienced a sharp decline in college enrollment, had worse labor … market outcomes throughout the life cycle and struggled to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. This contraction of higher … inequality observed under Pinochet. We further show that individuals exposed to reduced access to college registered to vote at …
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For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic … school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account … participation - Advanced Placement (AP) Exam taking in high school and college major. Using both measures, we find that …
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market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
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simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
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