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about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a … from having access to treated water. The program can account for the gender gap in educational attainment in rural China in …
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This paper uses data from a large survey of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government efforts to facilitate market development improve firm efficiency. Both government provision of information about products, markets, and innovation and government assistance in arranging loans are...
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of out-migrant workers by 2 percentage points, or about 50 percent of the sample mean in China. The results remain robust …
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resources after the "grabbing-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small" privatization program in China. Firms with government … behavior and financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …
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This paper develops a self-enforcing contract model to show that better economic fundamentals can help when there is weak rule of law -- but with order -- to attract foreign direct investment, whereas lowering taxes does not necessarily help. Using a cross-region Chinese dataset, the analysis...
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Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more … than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity … advantage using recent firm-level survey data. The analysis finds that China has better infrastructure, more skilled workers …
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Over the last three decades, China's product, labor, and capital markets have become gradually more integrated within …-rural divide, and Chinese cities tend to be under-sized by international standards. China has also integrated globally, initially …
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, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining … Chinese firms' financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …
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Hayek (1945) argues that local information is a key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of decentralizing SOEs confirms this insight: when the distance to the government is farther,...
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Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural...
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