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Sharing the benefits of China's growth by providing opportunities to all
Westmore, Ben - 2017
Living standards in China have greatly improved over the past few decades. Both sustained economic growth and an expansion of the social security system have contributed to a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty. However, urban-rural inequalities remain large and some of the...
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Do government transfers reduce poverty in China? : micro evidence from five regions
Westmore, Ben - 2017
This paper estimates urban and rural poverty rates across five Chinese administrative regions (Shanghai, Liaoning, Guangdong, Henan and Gansu) in 2014 using representative household level data from the China Family Panel Studies survey. The types of government transfer payments that households...
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Who benefits from payments for ecosystem services? : policy lessons from a forest carbon sink program in China
Hu, Yuan; Kuhn, Lena; Zeng, Weizhong; Glauben, Thomas - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 214 (2023), pp. 1-10
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Extending Social Assistance in China : Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme
Chen, Jiandong; Barrientos, Armando - 2009
Facing rapid demographic, social and economic transformation, China has taken steps to extend and strengthen the urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). The MLSS is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed. The...
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Evaluating China's poverty alleviation program: A regression discontinuity approach
Meng, Lingsheng - In: Journal of Public Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 1-11
This paper evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China's poverty alleviation program, on rural income growth at the county level over the program's disbursement period, from 1994 to 2000. Program participation was largely determined by whether a county's pre-program income...
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Poverty in China’s Colleges and the Targeting of Financial Aid
Hongbin, Li - 2013
To examine poverty on China's campuses, we utilize the Chinese College Students Survey carried out in 2010. With poverty line defined as the college-specific expenditures a student needs to maintain the basic living standard on campus, we find that 22 percent of college students in China are...
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Matching mechanisms and matching quality : evidence from a top university in China
Wu, Binzhen; Zhong, Xiaohan - In: Games and economic behavior 84 (2014), pp. 196-215
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Rural road stimulus and the role of matching mandates on economic recovery in China
Howell, Anthony - In: Journal of development economics 166 (2024), pp. 1-12
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The economic and social effects of skill mismatch in China : a DSGE model with skill and firm heterogeneity
Sun, Ting; Bian, Xuezi; Liu, Jianxu; Wang, Rui; Songsak … - In: Economic modelling 125 (2023), pp. 1-14
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Matching Mechanisms and Matching Quality : Evidence from a Top School in China
Wu, Binzhen - 2013
We compare competing college admission matching mechanisms that differ in preference submission timing (pre-exam, post …-exam but pre-score, or post-score) and in matching procedure (Boston (BOS) and serial dictatorship (SD) matching). Pre … or SD matching are ex-post fair and efficient, they are not so ex-ante. Instead, the mechanism with pre-exam submission …
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