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incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
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China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …
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The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their …
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children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
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This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor …
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We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an …
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county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old …
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Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
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