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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
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jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …
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only in higher income nations but also in countries that account for most of the population of the less-developed world …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture - and China's unique household registration …
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with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …
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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …
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. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …
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