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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …
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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
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Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … income link between sons and fathers in urban China appears to be not very different from what has been reported for …
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In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …
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This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …
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Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …
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Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …
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this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … the credibility of the IV by emphasizing the unique institutional context of rural-urban migration in China and focusing …
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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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