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Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2009
This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157527
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079435
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Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain
Farré, Lidia; Vella, Francis - 2007
redistributive roles for unemployment, government expenditure and the level of GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053540
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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016389
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138732
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China : Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138734
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834526
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Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in China
Qiu, Yun - 2020
This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and … as a result of the national and provincial public health measures imposed in late January in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835883
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The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
Oskorouchi, Hamid - 2020
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837904
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China
He, Huajing - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908875