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| January 2012 | Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009
with Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman: w17721
China’s emerging labor market was buffeted by changes in demand and supply and institutional changes in the last two decades. Using the Chinese Urban Household Survey data from 1989 to 2009, our study shows that the market responded with substantial changes in the structure of wages and in employment and types of jobs that workers obtained that mirrors the adjustments found in labor markets in advanced economies. However, the one place where the Chinese labor market appears to diverge from the labor markets in advanced countries is the rapid convergence in earnings and occupational positions of cohorts who entered the job market under more or less favorable conditions. On this dimension, China’s labor market seems more flexible than those in other countries. Three related factors may ex... |
| August 2010 | Comment on "Demographic Transition, Childless Families and Economic Growth"
in The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia, NBER-EASE Volume 19, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, editors
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| Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 China Famine
with Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Junsen Zhang
in The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia, NBER-EASE Volume 19, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, editors
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| September 2007 | Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
with Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Junsen Zhang: w13384
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through heightened male mortality. This tendency toward female offspring is interpretable in light of the Trivers-Willard (1973) hypothesis, according to which parents in poor condition should skew the offspring... |
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