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The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What … existing production network plays a crucial role in the diffusion of inputs and the evolution of technology …
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The overuse of medical services including antibiotics is often blamed on Physician Induced Demand. But since this … all of these treatments reduce antibiotics prescriptions, suggesting that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by …
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Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately … concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study, we use data from a two-year field experiment in rural China to define … model that includes the forces that are known to be determinants of insurance demand, provide reduced form confirmation of …
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This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a …
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The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous … since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …
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production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more … matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
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The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a … total impact of trading with China is a positive boost to local employment and real wages. The most important factor is …
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This paper studies how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected labor demand using over 100 million posted jobs on one of the … largest online platforms in China. Our data reveals that, due to the effects of the pandemic both in China and abroad, the … China by 11.7%. We also find that Chinese firms most exposed to international trade outperformed other firms at the …
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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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