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Trade normalization, export quality, and in-migration of skilled workers : evidence from China
Zhou, Kang; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 184 (2021), pp. 375-387
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600859
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Quota removal, destination-specific export shocks, and skill acquisition in China
Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Kang - In: Journal of development economics 165 (2023), pp. 1-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463887
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Quota Removal, Skill Acquisition, and Longer-Run Effects of Destination-Specific Export Shocks in China
Zhang, Junsen; zhou, kang - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076358
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822059
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Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 5, pp. 1520-1534
Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009996
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791517
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 245-260
Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736919
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189726
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Demographic age structure and economic development: Evidence from Chinese provinces
Zhang, Haifeng; Zhang, Hongliang; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2015) 1, pp. 170-185
in China. We extend the development accounting framework by incorporating age structure and apply it to a panel data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190830
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - eSocialSciences - 2012
Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493957