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We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10. We employ a difference-in-discontinuity approach that exploits the variation in the law's...
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China. We also find that corruption strongly reduces tax revenue. Looking at things from an expenditure point of view we … observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …. -- Corruption ; China ; Government ; Economic Development ; Inequality ; Environment …
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In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … in China that is mainly driven by the transition to a market economy. -- Corruption ; China ; Government … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher …
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a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the … relevance of social interaction in understanding corruption. -- Corruption ; Social Interaction ; China … the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of …
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We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … equilibrium in the early stage of China's development. The regionally decentralized authoritarian regime of China features lower …-powered public-sector pay scale in China. We propose a principal-agent model, where the principal represents the Chinese people …
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This paper presents a choice experiment, which values reductions in mortality risk on Alpine roads. These roads are on one hand threatened by common road hazards, on the other hand they are also endangered by natural hazards such as avalanches and rockfalls. Drawing on choice data from...
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Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...
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