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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … 2009, changing Northern and Southern shares in world trade which fall for the North from 82.3% to 64.4% and rise for the … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using …
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We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with spillovers and spatial sorting …
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The imposition of a national wage standard sets up a useful natural experiment in which the "treatment effect" varies across states depending on the fraction of workers earning less than the new minimum. I use this idea to evaluate the effect of the April 1990 increase in the Federal minimum...
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The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so “rise in the social insurance state” is a far better description of the century than...
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/sunk costs of this option are higher. Our results suggest that had China not liberalized its direct trading rights when it joined …
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Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …
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convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … strong within the coastal regions where there has been liberalization of international trade and investment flows. However … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …
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China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …
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Housing and land prices in China have experienced dramatic hikes over the past decade or two. Moreover, housing and …
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-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
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