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countries such as China, where rising inequality possesses a significant problem. …
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southern China. Using plot-season level survey data, we test the existence of a “technology gap” between the two types of …
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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of parental job loss on their children's health, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey …
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We study whether local credit ratings alleviate information asymmetry inherent in the fast growing Chinese market by examining the syndicate structure of loans issued by Chinese borrowers in 2003–2011. Despite the common criticism regarding the quality of Chinese credit ratings, our results...
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inventory method (PIM) to estimate prefecture-level WKS in China from 1978 to 2012, this paper aims to illustrate both the … hazards. The estimation results indicate that the accumulated WKS for Mainland China had reached RMB 152 trillion by 2012, and …, with approximately 47% being concentrated in the eastern economic region, and approximately 60% to 22% of China …
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Should China accelerate financial liberalization in order to avoid the middle-income trap? And, if the answer is yes … robustness checks. These findings offer important policy implications for China. …
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support the open-door policy of China. Part of the education reform involves an allocation of additional funding of US$ 20 …
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This paper is motivated by the recent debate on the existence and scale of China's ‘Guo Jin Min Tui’ phenomenon, which …
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The paper examines the spending preferences of local governments on land revenues by developing an indirect approach in which public sector outcomes are regressed with land revenues, the most dominant source for off-budget incomes. By doing so, we are able to overcome the issue of unavailable...
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Given China's notorious air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution, a detailed understanding … sustainable development is to be realized. To provide the first study of its kind for China, this paper builds an integrated … assessment framework based on a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. We find China's air pollution (PM2.5, ozone, and …
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