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We examine whether returns to capital are higher for farmers who borrow than for those who do not, a direct implication of many credit market models. We measure the difference in returns through a two-stage loan and grant experiment. We find large positive investment responses and returns to...
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This paper uses a difference-in-difference approach to examine the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute myocardial infarction...
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Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …
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This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we …
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rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …
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from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …
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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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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …
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public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school …
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Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …
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