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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …
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In this paper, we introduce a skewness-adjusted social-preferences functional, which models social preferences as a function of the skewness of the human capital distribution. We hypothesize that the “elite” of the society becomes more selfish with increasing skewness of the human-capital...
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …
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"China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing …
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development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. -- schooling ; gender ; twins …
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