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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...
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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors : Evidence from China's Great Famine
Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - 2021
addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine : A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - 2011
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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