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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China
Gan, Li - 2010
Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...
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Eat, Drink, Firms and Government : An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
Cai, Hongbin; Fang, Hanming; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2021
Entertainment and Travel Costs (ETC) is a standard expenditure item for Chinese firms with an annual amount equal to about 20 percent of total wage bills. We use this objective accounting measure as a basis to analyze the composition of ETC and the effect of ETC on firm performance. We rely on...
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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China Versus the World
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …
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