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作者：Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Demurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; Wang, Jianguo
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS de LYON); Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Universite Jean Monnet; Universite Lyon 2; CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS); Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Beijing Normal University; Beijing Information Science & Technology University
摘要：We assess the role of internal migration and urbanisation in China on the nominal earnings of three groups of workers (rural migrants, low-skilled natives, and high-skilled natives). We estimate the impact of many city and city-industry characteristics that shape agglomeration economies, as well as migrant and human capital externalities and substitution effects. We also account for spatial sorting and reverse causality. Location matters for individual earnings, but urban gains are unequally d...
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作者：Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Australian National University
摘要：We study how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board, focusing on two questions: First, to what extent do employers' requests affect the gender mix of a firm's applicant pool? Second, how `hard' are employers' stated gender requests- are they essential requirements, soft preferences, or something in between? Using internal data from a Chinese job board, we estimate that an explicit request for men raises men's share ...
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作者：Guo, Rufei; Lin, Lin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen
作者单位：Wuhan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; National University of Singapore; Zhejiang University
摘要：This paper studies the cross-spousal effect of education on health. We address the endogeneity of education that arises from one's own unobserved endowment using the within-twin fixed-effect method. We explore unique information on spousal health at both wedding and survey times to investigate the role of spousal unobserved endowment. We find that wives' education reduces husbands' consumption on cigarettes and alcohol, increases exercise frequency, lowers the probability of being overweight, ...
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作者：He, Guojun; Xie, Yang; Zhang, Bing
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Riverside; Nanjing University
摘要：In a matched difference-in-differences setting, we show that China's expressway system helps poor rural counties grow faster in GDP while slowing down growth in the rich rural counties, compared with the unconnected rural counties. This heterogeneity cannot be explained by a rich set of county characteristics related to initial market access, factor endowments, and sectoral patterns, but is consistent with the Chinese government's development strategy that more developed regions should priorit...
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作者：Haushofer, Johannes; Chemin, Matthieu; Jang, Chaning; Abraham, Justin
作者单位：McGill University; University of California System; University of California San Diego; Max Planck Society
摘要：We use a randomized experiment in Nairobi to compare the effect of free health insurance to an unconditional cash transfer of the same value and a control group. Despite high baseline rates of injury and illness, the median insurance taker does not use the insurance. We observe no significant effects of either insurance or cash on economic outcomes, self-reported health, and healthcare utilization. We find some evidence that the provision of health insurance reduced levels of self-reported str...
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作者：Huang, Cheng; Zhang, Shiying; Zhao, Qingguo
作者单位：Harbin Institute of Technology; George Washington University
摘要：Does the cutoff date for school entry affect the timing of births? Using administrative data from birth certificates that covers over five million newborns in Guangdong Province of China from 2014 to 2016, we find that more than 2000 births in a single year are shifted from seven days after the cutoff date to seven days before the cutoff date. Because of the strict administrative procedures in China to record births, manipulation of reported birth dates is infeasible. We also find evidence tha...
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作者：Altindag, Onur; Bakis, Ozan; Rozo, Sandra, V
作者单位：Bentley University; Bentley University; Bahcesehir University; University of Southern California
摘要：We study the impact of the sudden arrival of more than three million Syrian refugees in Turkey on Turkish businesses. Our empirical methodology exploits the annual variation in refugee outflows from Syria and geographic concentrations of Arabic-speaking communities in Turkey, which date back to the rupture of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Using yearly firm census data from 2006 to 2015, we document that refugee inflows induced a positive impact on the intensive and extensive margins of...
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作者：Rivera-Padilla, Alberto
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton
摘要：I argue that the agricultural productivity puzzle is in large part a staple productivity puzzle. Using detailed data from Mexican farms, I show that most farmers grow staple crops, despite the fact that labor productivity in cash crops is substantially higher. To explain this pattern I develop a quantitative general equilibrium framework with multiple regions and crop types, subsistence requirements of staple food, and interregional trade costs. In equilibrium, most farming production is in st...
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作者：Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930-1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid to study the short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification on local economies. In the short-run, rural electrification led to increases in agricultural employment, rural farm population, and rural property values, but there was little impact on the local non-agriculture economy. Benefits exc...
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作者：Choy, James P.
摘要：Kompromat - widespread criminality combined with systematic blackmail - plays an important role in the governance of many non-democratic states. I model this phenomenon. Citizens have a preference for retribution, that is, for inflicting costly punishments on criminals. The state can manipulate this preference for its own benefit by tolerating crime while collecting evidence of crimes to use for blackmail. High levels of crime coexist with large expenditures on police. The rich but not the poo...
