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Public wash programs, long-run child development, and intergenerational mobility : new evidence from rural People's Republic of China

Wang, Dongqin; Zou, Eddy Weijian - 2023

Using individual-level longitudinal data from 1989 to 2015, we examine the long-run effects of nationwide water plant construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health, and nutrition. We exploit the differential...

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Top management quality, corporate finance, and corporate innovation

Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Simonyan, Karen - 2017

its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for … enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how management quality has been measured in the recent empirical literature … investment policies, and on corporate innovation. Third, we consider the recent empirical literature on the relationship between …

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Demographic dividend, digital innovation, and economic growth : Bangladesh experience

Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz; Sarker, Tapan - 2021

This study aims to understand the linkages between demographic dividends, digital innovation, and economic growth … demographic transition to achieve faster economic growth while fostering digitization and technological innovation. Lessons …

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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia

Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016

Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...

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Are Chinese paying too much or too little for school quality? : the rent yield gap approach for estimating the capitalization of school quality in Shanghai

Zhang, Muyang; Chen, Jie - 2017

This paper explores how the unequal right of enrollment for public schools between households with different tenure statuses in urban People's Republic of China (PRC) affects rental yields. In the PRC, the rental yield is as low as 2% in major cities, mostly due to the lack of property tax and...

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Education, globalization, and income inequality in Asia

Park, Kang Hoon - 2017

This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The evidence supports the validity of Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality. However, when more variables are integrated into...

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The quiet revolution in women's human capital and the gender earnings gap in the People's Republic of China

Li, Zhengyang; Zhao, Guochang - 2020

Using the 2010 and 2014 data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper analyzes the effect of human capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the...

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Human capital and income inequality

Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018

This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...

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The impact of primary school investment reallocation on educational attainment in rural areas of the People's Republic of China

Haepp, Tobias; Lyu, Lidan - 2018

In this paper we analyze the effect of removing village-level primary schools and effectively merging these into larger township-level schools on educational attainment in rural areas of the People's Republic of China (PRC). We employ individual- and village-level information from the China...

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Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? : evidence from Japan

Niimi, Yoko - 2018

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment using data on Japan. By exploiting unique information on whether children have ever given up schooling for financial reasons and, if they have, which level of schooling they have forgone, it attempts to assess the...

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