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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?
Commander, Simon John - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036391
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084066
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842037
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099790
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834526
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128226
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...
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