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Dual circulation and population mobility during the pandemic in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang My; Yu, Bo - 2022
Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of … factors: China's control and management of the Delta variant, China's new "dual circulation" development paradigm, and a pent …
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941555
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A control function approach to estimating dynamic probit models with endogenous regressors, with an application to the study of poverty persistence in China
Giles, John T.; Murtazashvili, Irina - 2012
examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … into poverty. -- dynamic binary response models ; control function approach ; migration ; poverty-persistence ; rural China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629773
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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China
Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019
data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993244
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Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation : a multi-treatment experimental design
Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2015
This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the...
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Anthropometric mobility during childhood
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756011
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Increasing rural health clinic utilization with SMS updates : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Uganda
Chicoine, Luke E.; Guzmán, Juan Carlos - 2016
This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543179
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Social mobility and the importance of networks : evidence for Britain
Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar; Micklewright, John; … - 2014
Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors that might hinder social mobility, including the role of internships and similar employment...
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Types of communications technology and civil conflict
Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022
This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, one-way CT allows the government to broadcast messages they use to (mis)inform dissidents about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209313
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Income mobility
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211217