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From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to about one quarter …
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In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of …
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At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical … Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a natural experiment … the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …
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We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors …
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The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …
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China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …
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China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …
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This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …
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Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …
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We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city's subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data, and the extent of...
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