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induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …
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China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …
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Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
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rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex …
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Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 …
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Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …
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Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...
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, especially when public support is inadequate. However, using rich information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …
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In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …
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