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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317407
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764244
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Living in Rural Areas and Self-Employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083879
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117194
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962277
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
de Brauw, Alan - 2012
attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755665
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2019
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was … China Family Panel Studies to study determinants of the decision to enroll in NRPS, premiums paid, and time taken to enroll …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857692
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence from China
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065314
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012
This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105995
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
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 …
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