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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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A control function approach to estimating dynamic probit models with endogenous regressors, with an application to the study of poverty persistence in China

Giles, John T.; Murtazashvili, Irina - 2012

This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for … 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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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022

China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from … continue to be a part of China today. By contrast, cells that adopted agriculture early and were located further from Erlitou … reproducing a mega-state in the area that became China and on the determinants of its borders with other states. …

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …

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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dista...

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Evolution of capital structure in East Asia: corporate inertia or endeavours?

Driffield, Nigel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2008

The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected countries, average leverages were much higher among firms in the worst affected countries while the...

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