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作者：Howell, Anthony
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This paper explores the implications for economic recovery of a rural road stimulus program in China that led to the sudden suspension of local matching mandates. The main results reveal that a temporary cost share exemption stimulates short-term income growth in treated villages. As an explanation, I find that a cost share exemption leads to larger increases on local investment mainly on allied road improvements and to a lesser extent support for rural enterprise development and agricultural ...
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作者：Chen, Shuo; Xie, Bin
作者单位：Fudan University; Fudan University; Jinan University
摘要：This study investigates the impact of the abolition of People's Communes in the early 1980s on rural fertility in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of agricultural decollectivization, we show that decollectivization led to a significant decline in rural fertility, independent of the impact of family planning policies. Counties with higher levels of egalitarianism during the commune period experienced a sharper fertility decline following decollectivization, indicating that the eli...
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作者：Arora, Puneet; Roy, Moumita
作者单位：Management Development Institute (MDI); Ahmedabad University
摘要：We investigate the presence of gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) in India using a natural field experiment. In the first two treatments, we randomly assigned 504 students to attend an identical audio-visual lecture, manipulating the perceived gender of the professor. In two subsequent treatments, we provide additional information about the professors' credentials to signal their competence. When we vary the perceived gender, on average, we do not find any significant differ...
