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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (56 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Xu, Lixin Colin Water Quality, Brawn, and Education
    Abstract: Although previous research has demonstrated the health benefits of water treatment programs, relatively little is known about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a major drinking water treatment program started in the 1980s, perhaps the largest of such programs in the world. By employing a cross-sectional data set (constructed from a longitudinal data set covering two decades) with more than 4,700 individuals between 18 and 25 years old, the analysis finds that this health program has improved the individuals' education substantially, increasing the grades of education completed by 1.08 years. The qualitative results hold when the analysis controls for local educational policies and resources, village dummies, and distance of villages to schools, and by instrumenting the water treatment dummy with villages' topographic features, among others. Moreover, three findings render support to the brawn theory of gender division of labor: girls benefit much more from water treatment than boys in schooling attainment; youth with an older brother benefit more than youth with an older sister; and boys gain more body mass than girls do from having access to treated water. The program can account for the gender gap in educational attainment in rural China in the sample period. Young people that had access to treated plant water in early childhood (0-2 years of age) experienced significantly higher gains in education than those who were exposed to treated water after early childhood. The estimates suggest that this program is highly cost-effective
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781786437396
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics 360
    Series Statement: Elgaronline
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar books
    Series Statement: Elgar research reviews in economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings in economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Recent developments in the economics of structural change
    DDC: 338.9
    Keywords: Strukturwandel ; Theorie des Strukturwandels ; Economic development ; Sustainable development ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Strukturwandel ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Mathematische Modellierung
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Piyabha Kongsamut, Sergio Rebelo and Danyang Xie (2001), 'Beyond Balanced Growth', Review of Economic Studies, 68 (4), October, 869-82 -- 2. Reto Foellmi and Josef Zweimüller (2008), 'Structural Change, Engle's Consumption Cycles and Kaldor's Facts of Economic Growth', Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (7), December, 1317-28 -- 3. Timo Boppart (2014), 'Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts in a Growth Model with Relative Price Effects and Non-Gorman Preferences', Econometrica, 82 (6), November, 2167-96 -- 4. L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides (2007),'Structural Change in a Multisector Model of Growth', American Economic Review, 97 (1), March, 429-43 -- 5. Daron Acemoglu and Veronica Guerrieri (2008),'Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth', Journal of Political Economy, 116 (3), June, 467-98 -- 6. Kiminori Matsuyama (2009),'Structural Change in an Interdependent World: A Global View of Manufacturing Decline', Journal of European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), May, 478-86 -- 7. Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson and Akos Valentinyi (2013), 'Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation', American Economic Review, 103 (7), December, 2752-89 -- 8. Berthold Herrendorf, Christopher Herrington and Ákos Valentinyi (2015),'Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation', American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 7 (4), October, 104-33 -- 9. Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski (2009),'Can Traditional Theories of Structural Change Fit the Data?', Journal of The European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), April, 469-77 -- 10. Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan B. Işcan (2009), 'Engel Versus Baumol: Accounting for Structural Change using Two Centuries of U.S. Data', Explorations in Economics History, 46 (2), April, 186-202 -- 11. Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Markus Poschke (2011), 'Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push Versus Labor Pull', American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 3 (3), July, 127-58 -- 12. Robert Dekle and Guillaume Vandenbroucke (2012), 'A Quantitative Analysis of China's Structural Transformation', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36 (1), January, 119-35 -- 13. Dale W. Jorgenson and Marcel P. Timmer (2011), 'Structural Change in Advanced Nations: A New Set of Stylised Facts', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113 (1), March, 1-29 -- 14. Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski (2012), 'Scale and the Origins of Structural Change', Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (2), March, 684-712 -- 15. Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski (2012), 'The Rise of the Service Economy', American Economic Review, 102 (6), October, 2540-69 -- 16. Timothy Uy, Kei-Mu Yi and Jing Zhang (2013), 'Structural Change in an Open Economy', Journal of Monetary Economics, 60 (6), September, 667-82 -- 17. Caroline Betts, Rahul Giri and Rubina Verma (2017), 'Trade, Reform, and Structural Transformation in South Korea', IMF Economic Review, 65 (4), November, 745-91 -- 18. Marc Teignier (2018), 'The Role of Trade in Structural Transformation', Journal of Developmental Economics, 130, January, 45-65 -- 19. Tomasz Święcki (2017), 'Determinants of Structural Change', Review of Economic Dynamics, 24, March, 95-131
    Abstract: 20. Timothy J. Kehoe, Kim J. Ruhl and Joseph B. Steinberg (2018), 'Global Imbalances and Structural Change in the United States', Journal of Political Economy, 126 (2), April, 761-96 -- 21. Diego Restuccia, Dennis Tao Yang and Xiadong Zhu (2008), 'Agriculture and Aggregate Productivity: A Quantitative Cross-Country Analysis', Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (2), March, 234-50 -- 22. David Lagakos and Michael E. Waugh (2013), 'Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences', American Economic Review, 103 (2), April, 948-80 -- 23. Douglas Gollin, Stephen L. Parente, and Richard Rogerson (2007), 'The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels', Journal of Monetary Economics, 54 (4), May, 1230-55 -- 24. Margarida Duarte and Diego Restuccia (2010), 'The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (1), February, 129-73 -- 25. Cristina Echevarria (1997), 'Changes in Sectoral Composition Associated with Economic Growth, International Economic Review, 38 (2), May, 431-52 -- 26. John Laitner (2000),'Structural Change and Economic Growth', Review of Economic Studies, 67 (3), May, 545-61 -- 27. Yongsung Chang and Andreas Hornstein (2015) 'Transition Dynamics in the Neoclassical Growth Model: The Case of South Korea', BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 15 (2), July, 649-76 -- 28. Tasso Adamopoulos (2011), 'Transportation Cost, Agricultural Productivity, and Cross-country Income Differences', International Economic Review, 52 (2), May, 489-521 -- 29. Berthold Herrendorf, James A. Schmitz and Arilton Teixeira (2012), 'The Role of Transportation in the U.S. Economic Development: 1840-1860', International Economic Review, 53 (3), August, 693-715 -- 30. Francesco Caselli and Wilbur John Coleman II (2001), 'The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: A Reinterpretation', Journal of Political Economy, 109 (3), June, 584-616 -- 31. Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen J. Redding (2012), 'Urbanization and Structural Transformation', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (2), May, 535-86 -- 32. Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2014), 'Spatial Development', American Economic Review, 104 (4), April, 1211-43
    Abstract: This informative research review discusses the most prominent papers within the economics of structural change and growth. This piece focuses on research that investigates the causes and consequences of structural change with either theoretical or calibrated models, mindfully referring to some of the most celebrated literature over the last two decades. The research review analyses literature covering the impact structural change has on an array of economic factors including convergence, per capita income and spatial development. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editors, this collection would be well suited to scholars and macro-development economists wishing to extend their knowledge of this compelling topic
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