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International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...
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This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which have noteworthy empirical...
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predictions for the effects of changes in fixed costs, variable costs, and foreign income on the extensive margin, while for the … and foreign income are not. The number of exporting firms of a state is used to measure the extensive margin, while the …
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In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
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income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling …
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China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
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Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband's earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative … poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … their policy direction toward more inclusive growth where most members are transforming themselves from a low-income country …
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Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a … top decile's income share is associated with a statistically significant 0.12 point rise in GDP growth during the … for the cumulative positive effect of faster growth on the mean income of the bottom nine deciles to offset the negative …
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …
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