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Gender bias end economic development in an endogenous growth model
Zhang, Junsen; Zhang, Jie; Li, Tianyou - In: Journal of development economics 59 (1999) 2, pp. 497-525
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Beyond the quantity-quality tradeoff : population control policy and human capital investment
Wang, Xuebo; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of development economics 135 (2018), pp. 222-234
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364
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The child quantity-quality trade-off
Guo, Rufei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2022
This chapter reviews the growing literature on the child quantity–quality (QQ) trade-off. During the transition from the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and human capital investment per child increases. Motivated...
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Early health shocks, intra-household resource allocation and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 347-371
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Picking up the losses : the impact of the Cultural Revolution on human capital reinvestment in urban China
Han, Jun; Suen, Wing-chuen; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 13 (2019) 1, pp. 56-94
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
health shocks negatively affect child human capital, including health, education, and socioemotional skills. Compensating …
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468878
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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard (contributor);  … - 2006
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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