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Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Chang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up … original program. An analysis of it facilitates investigation of the skills generated by Jamaica Reach Up and Learn. We find …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …
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Regulating Conglomerates in China : Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program
Chen, Qiaoyi; Chen, Zhao; Liu, Zhikuo; Suárez Serrato, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates. Using detailed firm-level data and difference-in-differences research designs, we show that regulated firms cut output and shifted production to unregulated firms in the same...
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Annual Report on China's Petroleum, Gas and New Energy Industry (2021)
Cai, Fang (ed.); Ma, Yongsheng (ed.); Jin, Zhijun (ed.) - 2022
1. Prospects for China’s Economic Development During the 14TH Five-Year Plan Period -- 2.Prospects for China’s Energy Transition in a Carbon Neutrality Outlook by 2060 -- 3.Economic Growth and Energy Consumption: Four-dimensional Comparsion of Aggregate, Elasticity, Intensity and Structure...
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Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China
Shen, Yangyang - 2022
Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty --...
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Strategies in Sustainable Tourism, Economic Growth and Clean Energy
Balsalobre-Lorente, Daniel (ed.); Driha, Oana M. (ed.);  … - 2021
Chapter 1. The Impact of Tourism and Renewable Energy Use over Economic Growth in Top 10 Tourism Destinations -- Chapter 2. The Possible Influence of the Tourism Sector on Climate Change in The US. Chapter 3. Tourism Sector and Environmental Quality: Evidence from Top 20 Tourist Destinations --...
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Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
Pang, Ruizhi (ed.); Xuejie, Bai (ed.);  … - Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference <2016, Tianjin> - 2018
Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...
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Innovation in ASEAN : Change and Development
Ratten, Vanessa (ed.) - 2022
1. Innovation in ASEAN countries -- 2. The Transformation of Embedded Means into Resources During Community-Based Venture Creation -- 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation Strategy in the Midst of Pandemic: A Case of Bersih Solution -- 4. Evolution of Entrepreneurship Development among Different...
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Economic Growth under Transformative AI
Trammell, Philip; Korinek, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Industrialized countries have long seen relatively stable growth in output per capita and a stable labor share. AI may be transformative, in the sense that it may break one or both of these stylized facts. This review outlines the ways this may happen by placing several strands of the literature...
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory - 2001
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this divergence was increasing differences in the efficiency of...
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Productivity Growth in the 1990s : Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?
Basu, Susanto - 2001
Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether this increase owes to an increase in the rate of technological change or whether it can be explained by non-technological factors relating to factor utilization, factor...
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