Italy, the use of such an index at national level may not be enough to have a clear picture of the human capital conditions … high heterogeneity into consideration, we develop a Human Capital Index for Italy disaggregated at provincial level. The …

measures, even if they relied on inputs from China or Italy. The local, county-level spread of COVID-19 cases affected …

Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for … business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation … coincident with production activity due to the prevalence of just-in-time delivery. The Toll Index is a good early indicator of …

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate …

China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …

urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …