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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
Curtis, Chadwick - 2011
This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129127
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2013
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076182
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039768
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Household Finance in China
Cooper, Russell - 2017
This paper uses a lifecycle model to study household finance in China, focusing on the high savings rate, the low stock … market participation rate and the low share of stocks in wealth. We control for important regime changes in China in the … financial choices of households in China are driven by institutional factors, such as labor market risks and costs of asset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948910
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal; Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2021
China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310546
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Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics
Mullahy, John - 2011
Estimation of marginal or partial effects of covariates x on various conditional parameters or functionals is often the main target of applied microeconometric analysis. In the specific context of probit models such estimation is straightforward in univariate models, and Greene, 1996, 1998, has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118420
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Estimation of Multivariate Probit Models Via Bivariate Probit
Mullahy, John - 2015
Models having multivariate probit and related structures arise often in applied health economics. When the outcome dimensions of such models are large, however, estimation can be challenging owing to numerical computation constraints and/or speed. This paper suggests the utility of estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014663
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Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006 : a Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variabl...
Sosa-Rubi, Sandra - 2007
Objective: We evaluated the impact of Seguro Popular (SP), a program introduced in 2001 in Mexico primarily to finance health care for the poor. We studied the effect of SP on pregnant women's access to obstetrical services. Data: We analyzed the cross-sectional 2006 National Health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775802
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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows
Goldstein, Itay - 2010
We examine the choice between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment at the level of the source country. Based on a theoretical model, we predict that (1) source countries with higher probability of aggregate liquidity crises export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759578
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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our data distinguish our analysis from the previous...
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