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Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven economies that documents politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their links to companies,...
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Po, the cradle of top French politicians. We exploit arbitrary assignments of students into short-term integration groups …
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Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
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In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
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these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
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Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where …
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associated with higher SWB across such diverse groups as being a member of the communist party or a religious organization. China …
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" blood plasma in exchange for cash rewards in China. We do so using two primary data sets: the first is a three-wave, census …
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. We then document our research project in rural China that implements a multiple wave census-type household survey and a …
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This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first …
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