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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …
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This study finds that China's one-child policy (OCP), one of the most extreme forms of birth control in recorded … history, has amplified economic inequality across generations in China since its introduction in 1979. Poor Chinese families …
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We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...
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An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
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China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
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This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our … China's marriage market. This competitive-earning-incentive hypothesis is then supported by additional empirical evidence … development in China …
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