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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos - 2020
This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to...
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462981
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from Within China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2001
, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470105
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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
methods that exploit unique panel data on young twins in China. The estimates indicate that higher levels of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480036
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was … China Family Panel Study to study determinants of the decision to enroll in NRPS, premiums paid, and time taken to enroll …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453648
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334362
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453103
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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China
Whalley, John - 2010
We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in … of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462082
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Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand : Evidence from Urban China
Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013
private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458930
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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
Lagakos, David - 2018
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453520