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middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured …
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Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …
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plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …
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Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …
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rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …
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Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...
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from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …
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concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study, we use data from a two-year field experiment in rural China to define …
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Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …
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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …
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