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Does Female Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation? : Evidence from China's Gender Imbalance
Zhibo, Tan - 2016
labor scarcity affects corporate innovation based on the matched dataset of annual surveys of industrial firms in China and …
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Roads to Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from China
Wang, Xu - 2016
Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country's economic growth, discussion … innovation in China using a matched patent database at the firm level and road information at the city level. Regional variation … number of approved patents per firm by 0.71 percent. Road development spurs innovation by enlarging market size and …
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Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior: "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare, largely due to the formidable challenges of collecting data on stigmatized goods and services. In this paper, we add to...
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