The purpose of this paper is to highlight a version of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for emerging countries with a new dataset. More than the catching-up effect, we will measure the convergence for three emerging countries: Brazil/China/India. We will compare the convergence between these...

While much research has been devoted to the implications of the one child policy (OCP) with regard to China's population age structure and marriage market shortages, very little research has touched upon the OCP's effects on China's marriage market in an ethnically diverse context. The OCP has...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight a version of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for emerging countries with a new dataset. More than the catching-up effect, we will measure the convergence for three emerging countries: Brazil/China/India. We will compare the convergence between these...