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The effects of gender control on fertility and children`s consumption

Davies, James B.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 67-85

Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …

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Dynamic microeconomic models of fertility choice: A survey

Arroyo, Cristino R.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 23-65

We review existing approaches to the specification and estimation of dynamic microeconomic models of fertility. Dynamic … fertility models explain the evolution of fertility variates over the life-cycle as the solution to a dynamic programming model … models of lifetime fertility. JEL classification: J13, C41, C61 …

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Sectoral gender wage differentials and discrimination in the transitional Chinese economy

Meng, Xin; Zhang, Junsen; Liu, Pak-Wai - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 331-352

China's economic reform has affected various ownership sectors to different degree. A comparison of gender wage differentials and discrimination among individuals employed in the three sectors - state sector, the collective sector, and the private sector - provides information on the impact of...

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

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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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Zhang, Junsen; Conti, Gabriella; Yi, Junjian; Heckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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How does social security affect economic growth? Evidence from cross-country data

Zhang, Jie; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Population Economics 17 (2004) 3, pp. 473-500

investment, and fertility). Our empirical investigation finds that the estimated coefficient on social security is significantly … negative in the fertility equation, insignificant in the saving equation, and significantly positive in the growth and …

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