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Checkerboards and Coase : Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
Akee, Randall - 2021
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...
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Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?
Murray, Cameron - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959036
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Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?
Borcan, Oana - 2015
We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was...
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138732
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China : Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138734
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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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Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in China
Qiu, Yun - 2020
This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and … as a result of the national and provincial public health measures imposed in late January in China …
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The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
Oskorouchi, Hamid - 2020
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837904
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China
He, Huajing - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908875
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
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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