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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269112
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289985
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Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017
household survey in rural China, this paper provides empirical evidence on the squeeze effect of gift giving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653390
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The first world war and working-class food consumption in Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2010
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278730
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Prenatal Sugar Consumption and Late-Life Human Capital and Health: Analyses Based on Postwar Rationing and Polygenic Scores
van den Berg, Gerard J.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426393
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on diet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531670
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on diet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264784
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The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693840