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.57 centimeters greater height, complete 0.22 more grades of schooling, and live in households that score 0.12 standard deviations …
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We examine individuals' self-reported willingness to exchange part of their Social Security inflation-indexed annuity benefit for an immediate lump-sum payment, using an experimental module in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study. Our first finding is that nearly three out of five respondents...
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This study has two primary goals. These are the examination of the effect of risk tolerance on individuals' demand for alcohol and second, the examination of the demand for alcohol by older adults over the age of 55. The data sets employed are multiple waves from the Panel Study of Income...
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, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …
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To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
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sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
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, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing …, fueling a real estate bubble; and that China's seemingly highly effective macroeconomic stimulus package may well have induced …
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This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …
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biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …
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take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …
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