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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020

concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girlsand unfavorable school environment. There is some … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …

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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022

data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence on three large developing countries (China, India, and Indonesia) that …. The estimates of risk adjusted relative and absolute mobility for China, India and Indonesia suggest that the standard …

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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China

Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017

Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in their personal attributes. We find that migrants who have...

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Welfare magnets and internal migration in China

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020

This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....

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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019 - Current version: April 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...

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Arrival of young talents : the send-down movement and rural education in China

Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018 - This draft: October 2018

This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern Chinahe send-down movement. From 1962 to 1979, the Chinese central government mandated the temporary resettlement of roughly 18 million urban youths to rural areas across the country. The...

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Do research universities boost regional economic development? : evidence from China

Chu, Shuai; Liu, Xiangbo - 2021

This paper studies whether research universities can boost regional economic development through an exogenous shock of a forced relocation of a research university in China. We analyze the development in the treated regions compared with a set of control regions that are created using the...

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Hukou status and children's education in China

Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998....

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Informal Iinstitution meets child development : clan culture and child labor in China

Tang, Can; Zhao, Zhong - 2022

Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture significantly reduces the incidence of child labor and working...

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Pandemics and intergenerational mobility of education : evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China

Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021

This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases the intergenerational transmission of...

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