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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
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This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...
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This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...
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the household location decision directly, and we apply it to the case of air quality in U.S. metro areas in 1990 and 2000 … with respect to air quality of 0.34 to 0.42. These estimates imply that the median household would pay $149 to $185 (in …
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In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption … together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable … public good to members of the household; one example would be where all household members or one alone can watch TV. When …
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We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan …
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different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …
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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's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...
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