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Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
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This paper investigates how social security interacts with growth and growth determinants (savings, human capital … negative in the fertility equation, insignificant in the saving equation, and significantly positive in the growth and … education equations. By contrast, the estimated coefficient on growth is insignificant in the social security equation. The …
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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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Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born …
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structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …
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Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. …
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Adult health outcomes and health behaviors are often associated with schooling. However, such associations do not necessarily imply that schooling has causal effects on health with the signs or magnitudes found in the cross-sectional associations. Schooling may be proxying for unobserved factors...
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in China. We extend the development accounting framework by incorporating age structure and apply it to a panel data set … demographic composition of the working-age population, are significantly correlated with provincial economic growth rates. During … our study period 1990–2005, the evolution of age structure accounts for nearly one-fifth of the growth in GDP per capita …
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Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653355
China over 20years. Two indicators of entrepreneurship are defined and introduced into the traditional growth regression …This paper examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth by using a panel data set of 29 provinces in … economic growth. Our results suggest that entrepreneurship has a significant positive effect on economic growth and this …
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