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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births
Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor);  … - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635269
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The fertility effect of catastrophe : U.S. hurricane births
Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao; Zhao, Zhong - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 1-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922797
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe : U.S. Hurricane Births
Evans, Richard W. - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776118
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
Zhao, Zhong; Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703190
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The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births
Evans, Richard; Hu, Yingyao; Zhao, Zhong - In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 1-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491591
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307335
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401617
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401651
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584610
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Social-family network and self-employment: Evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 4, pp. 1-21
this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603717