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Costly Posturing : Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a primary census-type panel …
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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 Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing … inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined through decomposition by income source and population subgroups … economy. The narrative on Chinese inequality now needs to focus on the reasons for this great turnaround …
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