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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J. - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2014
patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048998
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Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution
Chamon, Marcos - 2006
in growth for developing countries in aggregate. The rapid rise of China may hurt some developing countries in the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781955
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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Couture, Victor - 2019
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2014
It is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040229
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Height and Per Capita Income
Steckel, Richard H. - 2021
As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to...
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Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers : Introducing Age into National Accounts
Mason, Andrew W. - 2010
In all societies intergenerational transfers are large and have an important influence on inequality and growth. The development of each generation of youth depends on the resources that it receives from productive members of society for health, education, and sustenance. The well-being of the...
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite...
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Frictional Sorting
Liang, Wenquan; Song, Ran; Timmins, Christopher - 2022
combine to restrict workers’ location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we … regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and …
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