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unique dataset that provides information on both current and return migrants in rural China (RUMiC), we investigate the …
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examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In …
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We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a...
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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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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
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We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …
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An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
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after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …
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-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful …
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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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