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household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …
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cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …
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data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we …
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …
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Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of … factors: China's control and management of the Delta variant, China's new "dual circulation" development paradigm, and a pent …
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...
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This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
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