Examining the Timing of Women's Retirement in Urban China: A Discrete Time Hazard Rate Approach [0.03%]
基于离散时间 hazard 模型的城镇女性退休时点分析
Denise Hare
Denise Hare
In spite of phenomenal wage growth in recent decades, female labor force participation in urban China has experienced a notable and puzzling decline, particularly so for women aged 40 and above. Concerns about women's status motivate an inq...
Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected? [0.03%]
养老保险与扩大家庭：子女的迁移会受到什么影响？
Xi Chen
Xi Chen
This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression discontinuity (hereafter RD) design to a p...
Tracing the Effects of Guaranteed Admission through the College Process: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Texas 10% Plan [0.03%]
大学录取保障政策的效应追踪：得克萨斯州10%计划的回归离断证据分析
Jason M Fletcher,Adalbert Mayer
Jason M Fletcher
The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed admission to public universities in Texas. We estimate the causal effects of this admissions guarantee on a sequence of connect...
Benjamin C Alamar,Stanton A Glantz
Benjamin C Alamar
This study estimates the economic value added to a restaurant by a smoke-free policy using regression analysis of the purchase price of restaurants, as a function of the presence of a smoke-free law and other control variables. There was a ...
Jason M Fletcher,David Frisvold,Nathan Tefft
Jason M Fletcher
Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing rates of obesity in the US. Nearly two-thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks using excise taxes, sales taxes, or special exemptions to food exe...
Robert L Ohsfeldt,Stephan F Gohmann
Robert L Ohsfeldt