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gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …
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We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...
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added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
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forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing … 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge …
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China's gradualistic approach allowed the government to learn how the economy reacts to small policy changes, and to …
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private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …
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. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …
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As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …
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