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Green Infrastructure and Air Pollution: Evidence from Highways Connecting Two Megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …
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Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses
Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - 2018
In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially reduced the saving costs of all workers, irrespective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931585
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Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Chen, Zeyuan; Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015
2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural … elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401637
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Non-Labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy
Chu, Junhong; Liu, Haoming; Png, I. P. L. - 2018
We exploit China's heating policy to investigate how non-labor income affects marriage. From the mid-1950s, the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931719
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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022
increase scores on the national college entrance exam—the sole determinant of university admission in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882615
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Early life health interventions and academic achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Neilson, … - 2012
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
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The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
Deschenes, Olivier; Wang, Huixia; Wang, Si; Zhang, Peng - 2019
We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005997
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The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China
Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2019
satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … air pollution would be higher if the hidden costs of air pollution on SWB in China are taken into account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006014
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Ambient Air Pollution and Helping Behavior: Evidence from the Streets in Beijing
Chang, Simon; Chatterjee, Ishita; Yu, Li - 2024
We conducted a large-scale lost letter experiment with a novel design across all seasons in Beijing to study whether ambient air pollution influences helping behavior. We assessed air pollution by PM2.5 and PM10. Our novel design allowed us to collect real-time granular data from the streets. To...
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Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities
Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020
This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …
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