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This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state …
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We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …
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China is the world’s largest investor and greatest contributor to global economic growth by wide margins, and will … sustain this growth. This paper shows that China’s stock market has a crucial role to play. Since the reforms of the last … decade, China’s stock market has become as informative about future corporate profits as in the US. Moreover, though it is a …
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This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new …
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Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks...
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India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller than African firstborns; the Indian height...
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International development agencies invest heavily in institution building in fragile states, including expensive interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of governments. Using the random assignment of an...
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We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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Poorly functioning, and often corrupt, public procurement procedures are widely faulted for the low quality of infrastructure provision in developing countries. Can electronic procurement (e-procurement), which reduces both the cost of acquiring tender information and personal interaction...
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This study uses micro data and an overlapping generations (OLG) model to show that general equilibrium (GE) forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important source of...
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