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Effects of Insurance Incentives on Road Safety : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China
Dionne, Georges - 2019
We contribute to the growing literature on moral hazard by offering empirical evidence of the effectiveness of insurance pricing incentives at improving road safety by comparing the claim frequency following a regulatory reform introduced in a pilot city in China with the experience of another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902150
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Heterogeneous Effects of Inter- and Intra-City Transportation Infrastructure on Economic Growth : Evidence from Chinese Cities
Chen, Yang - 2015
The heterogeneous output effects of inter-city and intra-city transportation infrastructure in China are examined using 219 prefecture-level city data from 1999 to 2012. Using the panel fully-modified OLS analysis, we find that at the Chinese prefecture-level city the estimated contribution rate...
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Industrial coal demand in China: A provincial analysis
Cattaneo, Cristina; Manera, Matteo; Scarpa, Elisa - 2008
The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China's energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand in...
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Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 99-111
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065901
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761777
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352204
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752085
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
Giles, John - 2013
examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … this application, it is shown that migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in … poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved …
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A panel data analysis on China's intra-industry trade in the capital goods sector
Zhu, Yiping - 2009
Diese Studie verwendet die Methode der Hausman-Taylor-2SLS Fehler-Komponenten zur Schätzung der Determinanten von Chinas Intraindustriellem Handel (IIT) im Investitionsgütersektor mit seinen 26 Partnerländern. Sie disaggregiert IIT in horizontalen IIT (HIIT) und vertikalen IIT (VIIT)....
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Is there a bubble in the Chinese housing market?
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2011
is taken into account. These findings might reflect a limited exposure of private households expenditures to housing …
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