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Household Decision Making in Rural China : Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2010
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160304
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring : Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...
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The Long-Term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition : Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon - 2015
We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis.We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …
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