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Decomposition of environmental total factor productivity growth using hyperbolic distance functions: A panel data analysis for China

Zhang, Zibin; Ye, Jianliang - In: Energy Economics 47 (2015) C, pp. 87-97

environmental efficiency for a panel data of 29 provinces in China from 1995–2010, and then decomposes the growth of environmental …

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Whole-farm economic, risk and resource-use trade-offs associated with integrating forages into crop–livestock systems in western China

Komarek, Adam M.; Bell, Lindsay W.; Whish, Jeremy P.M.; … - In: Agricultural Systems 133 (2015) C, pp. 63-72

improve farmer livelihoods and reduce soil erosion. In particular, government authorities in western China focus on improving …-use efficiency and feed balance effects of forage crop intensification on two simulated crop–livestock farm types in western China …

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Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling

Merli, M. Giovanna; Moody, James; Smith, Jeffrey; Li, Jing - In: Social Science & Medicine 125 (2015) C, pp. 79-93

We explore the network coverage of a sample of female sex workers (FSWs) in China recruited through Respondent Drive …

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Education and mortality among older adults in China

Luo, Ye; Zhang, Zhenmei; Gu, Danan - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 134-142

variations among older adults in China, using data from the 2002 to 2011 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity …

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Cross-sectional schooling-health associations misrepresented causal schooling effects on adult health and health-related behaviors: Evidence from the Chinese Adults Twins Survey

Behrman, Jere R.; Xiong, Yanyan; Zhang, Junsen - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 190-197

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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Does economic growth affect urbanization? New evidence from China and the Chinese National Congress

He, Xiaobo; Sim, Nicholas C.S. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 36 (2015) C, pp. 62-71

Using a panel of Chinese provinces during 1985–2008, we propose an estimation strategy to study the within-province effect that per capita GDP growth may have on the urbanization rate. Our approach exploits the timing of the National Congress of the Communist Party, which is a 5-yearly meeting...

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Relocation or reallocation: Impacts of differentiated energy saving regulation on manufacturing industries in China

Zhu, Junming; Ruth, Matthias - In: Ecological Economics 110 (2015) C, pp. 119-133

provincially differentiated regulation of energy saving in China. Econometric specifications take into account the workings of … decrease export rates. Through capital investment and factor reallocation, China's policy has been effective in improving …

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The fragility of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Revisiting the hypothesis with Chinese data via an “Extreme Bound Analysis”

Yang, Haisheng; He, Jie; Chen, Shaoling - In: Ecological Economics 109 (2015) C, pp. 41-58

This article revisits the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. Based on data for seven pollutants in 29 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2010, we conducted statistical tests on the coefficients of the critical variables (polynomial income-related terms) by following the logic of...

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Evaluating the water footprint of the energy supply of Liaoning Province, China: A regional input–output analysis approach

Okadera, Tomohiro; Geng, Yong; Fujita, Tsuyoshi; Dong, … - In: Energy Policy 78 (2015) C, pp. 148-157

consumption perspectives also. We evaluate the water footprint of the energy supply of Liaoning Province, China. We apply the …

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Fuel quality management versus vehicle emission control in China, status quo and future perspectives

Yue, Xin; Wu, Ye; Hao, Jiming; Pang, Yuan; Ma, Yao; Li, Yi - In: Energy Policy 79 (2015) C, pp. 87-98

China’s fuel quality standards and fuel supply management have long been an impediment to improved air quality by … hindering the progress of vehicle emission control. This paper summarizes the status of China’s fuel quality standards, fuel … supply and vehicle emission standards focusing on the major problems of fuel quality management. The mechanism that China …

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