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existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …
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methods that exploit unique panel data on young twins in China. The estimates indicate that higher levels of schooling …
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We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors …
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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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