This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from … China's trade intensity is higher than fundamentals would suggest, whereas the converse is true for India. Second, Chinese …, China's exports of services tend to complement its exports of goods, while India's exports are growing only in deregulated …

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …

–1630, and evidence on Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800. We found that a substantial share of East Asians … Korea, Japan, and China returned to the growth-path at different points of the 20th century, and this return was pre …

distributional effects. In Southwest China we are facing a rapid deforestation for the development of rubber cultivation and at the …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for …

China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use … % annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13 %. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980 s and the early 1990's. …

The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research … knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the … question whether TFP in China is increasingly based on knowledge production and diffusion. Relying on the regional KCM as …