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Where did all the remittances go? Understanding the impact of remittances on consumption patterns in rural China

Zhu, Yu; Wu, Zhongmin; Peng, Liquan; Sheng, Laiyun - 2009

We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … the combination of the restrictive hukou (household registration) system and the rigid land tenure system in China. …

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Do migrants really save more? Understanding the impact of remittances on savings in rural China

Zhu, Yu; Wu, Zhongmin; Wang, Meiyan; Du, Yang; Cai, Fang - 2009

This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …

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Political uncertainty and household savings

Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu - 2014

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data from a sample of the Urban Household Survey, we … households in China. Our estimates also suggest the channel through which increase in savings is achieved: the increase in …

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Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei; Zhu, Yu - 2019

Using the recent China Family Panel Studies, we identify the subjects studied by college (2–3 years) graduates and …

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Overeducation, Major Mismatch, and Return to Higher Education Tiers: Evidence from Novel Data Source of a Major Online Recruitment Platform in China

Zheng, Yanqiao; Zhang, Xiaoqi; Zhu, Yu - 2020

method to China, which has experienced a 10-fold expansion of its higher education sector over the last two decades. We find … that about half of online job-seekers in China are two or more years overeducated, resulting in 5.1% pay penalty. However …

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Higher Education Expansion and Supply of Teachers in China

Dai, Fengyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2021

We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the …

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Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the Great Higher Education Expansion

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Wei, Yi; Zhu, Yu - 2022

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 …. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the Great HE Expansion has exacerbated a large pre-existing urban …

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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021

Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship …, and use the higher education expansion in China starting in 1999 and instruments of pre-school hukou status to help …

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Does It Pay to Attend More Selective High Schools? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Li, Bo; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2022

We examine the effect of attending academically selective high schools on test scores, by leveraging administrative data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in 2010 with high school student records. The standard...

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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu - 2014

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481576