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constructed panel dataset for around 100 villages over a ten-year period from 1997 to 2006 in China. To our best knowledge, this …
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using a newly constructed panel dataset for around 100 villages over a ten-year period from 1997 to 2006 in China. Since …
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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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Boosting consumption has been a policy strategy for rebalancing the Chinese economy. The official statistics, however, show persistently declining consumption as a share of GDP during the past decade. In this paper, we provide a more complete picture of Chinese consumption by piecing together...
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Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born …
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This paper analyzes the effects of foreign bank entry on industrial efficiency in the People's Republic of China (PRC …
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Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the …
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China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …
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attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
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In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …
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