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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
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Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …
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We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one;...
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endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
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addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market …
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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...
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Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …
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biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 …
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In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...
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