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China has experienced during the past 20 years as well as being responsible for some of the remaining barriers, the nation … rural China. Surprisingly, however, even though the potential for gain and for damage is great, almost no literature exists … rest of this paper as follows. In the first section, I will first review China's macro setting and discuss a number of the …
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paper uses the exposure of 16-year-old cohorts to an exogenous elimination of export quotas to explore the short …-run schooling consequence of destination-specific export expansions and the longer-run effects on adult outcomes. We find that … export expansions to rich-country markets resulted in substantially higher high school enrollment rates. The expansions …
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attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
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The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …
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Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born …
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The emergence of China as an economic power is one of the miracle growth stories of the last part of the 20th century …). In fact, by the end of 2007 China had achieved many of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). …
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The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …
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Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
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