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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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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …
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married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …
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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on … urban areas and Central and Western China. These results are robust not only to alternative EP and health care expenditure …
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …
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China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short …-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced … technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …
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Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of … factors: China's control and management of the Delta variant, China's new "dual circulation" development paradigm, and a pent …
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China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay …
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trade between China and the U.S. in order to avoid the well-known aggregation bias. Estimates of symmetric error … in assessing the effects of the RE misalignment on trade flows between the U.S. and China and confirms that the impacts …
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recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic …
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