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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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prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
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Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a … attributable to growth in the quality of Chinese exports and the increase in new products being exported by China …
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, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal adjustments.In previous studies that excluded China we predicted …, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction. Even though China …
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survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …
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reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …
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office has a greater percentage of mistakenly granted patents than those of Europe, the United States, Korea and China …
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