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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market …
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The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …
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During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...
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Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic increases in income and investment opportunities. Reform has also reduced social protections provided...
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