N Qian - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Economists have long argued that the sex imbalance in developing countries is
caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses exogenous increases in sex-
specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of ...
[CITATION] Quantity-quality and the one child policy: The positive effect of family size on school enrollment in China
N Qian - Chapter in PhD thesis, Department of Economics, …, 2004
X Meng… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two
World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know
almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper ...
T Piketty… - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper evaluates income tax reforms in China and India. The combination of
fast income growth and under-indexed tax schedule in China implies the fraction of the
Chinese population subject to income tax has increased from less than 0.1 percent in ...
[CITATION] Missing women and the price of tea in China: The effect of relative female income on sex imbalance
N Qian - Manuscript, Dept. Econ., Massachusetts Inst. Tech, 2005
This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's
Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential
endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity ...
N Nunn… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time
variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the
impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the ...
N Qian - 2009 - nber.org
Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality.
This paper exploits plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in
China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of family size on school enrollment ...
MJ Lin, N Qian… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex
ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification,
we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective abortion ...
[CITATION] Columbus's contribution to world population and urbanization: A natural experiment examining the introduction of potatoes
N Nunn… - Mimeogr., Harvard Univ, 2008
N Nunn… - The journal of economic perspectives, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the long-term impacts of the Columbian
Exchange—that is, the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, technologies, populations,
and cultures between the New World and the Old World after Christopher Columbus' ...
A Banerjee, E Duflo… - 2012 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of
the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to ...
[CITATION] The long run impact of childhood malnutrition: Evidence from China's great famine
X Meng… - Brown University, 2006
X Meng, N Qian… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two
empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three
times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food ...
N Qian… - Journal of the European Economic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper uses a country-level panel data set to test the hypothesis that the United
States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters' strategic value. We
use the difference between the US State Department's and Amnesty International's reports ...
N Qian… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the US government
influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic
objectives of the US government cause the State Department to under-report human rights ...
E Meyersson, GP i Miquel… - available via The World Bank http:// …, 2008 - lse.ac.uk
Abstract This paper studies the causal impact of China's rising demand for natural resources
(NR) on Sub-Saharan African political and economic development. We separately
instrument for NR exports to China, to the World, to the US and India with the interaction ...
[CITATION] Railroad to success: The effect of infrastructure on economic growth
A Banerjee, E Duflo… - 2007
[CITATION] Missing women more and more: The effect of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth and excess female mortality
MJ Lin, JT Liu… - 2007 - Mimeo. National Taiwan University …
A Banerjee,
X Meng… - 2010 - nber.org
Abstract This study investigates the extent to which China's high household savings rates
can be explained by the life cycle theory. First, we document that Chinese parents depend
on their children for support when elderly and that sons provide more support than ...
[CITATION] tThe Historical Impact of the Potato on World Population
N Nunn… - 2008 - uBrown University Working Paper
[CITATION] More missing women, fewer dying girls: the impact of abortion on sex ratios at birth and excess female mortality in Taiwan
MJ Lin, JT Liu… - unpublished paper, 2008
M Martinez-Bravo, N Qian, Y Yao - 2011 - nber.org
We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. We develop a simple
model to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, ...
[CITATION] Quantity-Quality and the One Child Disadvantage: Evidence from China
N Qian - NBER Working Paper, 2006
[CITATION] Aiding Conflict: The Unintended Consequences of US Food Aid on Civil War, 1976–2004
N Nunn… - manuscript, Harvard University, 2010
[CITATION] tThe Strategic Determinants of US Hu'man Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold WaruJournal of European Economic Association Papers and …
N Qian… - 2009 - Forthcoming
[CITATION] Quantity and Quality and the One Child Policy: The Only-Child Disadvantage on School Enrollment in China
N Qian - Department of Economics, Brown University, …, 2008
[CITATION] Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Local Electoral Reforms in Rural China
M Martinez-Bravo, GP Miquel, N Qian… - Annual Meeting of the Northeast …, 2010
N Nunn… - 1976 - econ.as.nyu.edu
Abstract This study paper examines the impact food aid on conflict. We identify a causal
effect by exploiting time-variation in US food aid provision arising from local weather shocks
in American wheat producing regions. We show that because of price supports, in years ...
[CITATION] 2oo8, WMissing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sexspecific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
N Qian - X Quarterly Journal of Economics
[CITATION] More Missing Women, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
L Ming-Jen, JT Liu… - NBER Working Paper w14541, 2009
[CITATION] The Long Run Impact of Exposure to Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine
X Meng… - NBER working paper W, 2009
[CITATION] On the Road: The Effect of Transportation Networks in China
A Banerjee, E Duflo… - 2009 - Yale University Working Paper
M Martinez-Bravo, G Padro-i-Miquel… - … Summer Institute at …, 2010 - agenda.unibocconi.it
Abstract This study uses a unique survey to study the impact of electoral reforms on income
growth in rural China during the past two decades. Electoral reforms shifted the
accountability of village leaders from higher levels of government towards villagers. We ...
[CITATION] Unbundling Property Rights: The Impact of Urban Housing Reforms on Labor Mobility and Savings in China
L Iyer,
X Meng… - 2009 - unpublished working paper
[CITATION] rThe Long Run Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from Chinass Great Famine 1959'61
X Meng… - 2009 - uNBER Working Paper
L Iyer,
X Meng… - Unpublished manuscript, 2009 - chinasummerinstitute.org
Abstract This paper examines the effect of urban housing privatization on labor mobility in
China. The reform untied housing access from state sector employment and transferred
property rights from the state to individuals. We exploit city# specific timing of the reform for ...
[CITATION] Railway and Growth: Evidence from China
A Banerjee, E Duflo… - … and Economic Performance” workshop, Mac-Arthur …, 2005
[CITATION] 9Missing Women and the price of Tea in China: The Effect of SexY Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance9
N Qian - 2006 - CEpR Discussion paper
N Qian… - NBER Working Paper No, 2010 - hks.harvard.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the effect of strategic objectives of the US government on
news coverage in the US commercial press. We exploit novel variation in a country's
strategic value to the United States to establish two causal relationships: 1) strategic ...
[CITATION] The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of US Government Bias on Media Coverage of Human Rights during the Cold War
N Qian… - 2008 - Working paper, Brown University
MJ Lin, JT Liu… - NBER Working Paper, 2010 - aida.econ.yale.edu
Abstract This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion
on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For
identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective ...
This paper examines the effect of US food aid on conflict in recipient countries. To establish
a causal relationship, we exploit time variation in food aid caused by fluctuations in US
wheat production together with cross-sectional variation in a country's tendency to receive ...
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid
shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in
developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, ...
MJ Lin, JT Liu… - 2007 - Citeseer
Abstract The determinants of the observed sex imbalance in Asian and Muslim countries has
been an intensely debated topic recently. One hypothesis that all sides agree on is that
increased access to sex-selective abortion significantly increased the number of missing ...
L Iyer,
X Meng, N Qian… - 2011 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract We study the wage structure during economic transition in the context of Chinese
cities and examine the effect of China's urban housing reforms on the urban wage structure
(1988-2005). We find that these reforms, which untied access to housing from state-sector ...
N Qian - 2006 - cepr.org
Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing
countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly
exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in ...
A Banerjee, E Duflo… - 2012 - cepr.org
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of
the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to ...
[CITATION] Estimating the Value of Individual Property Rights: Evidence from China's Urban Housing Reforms
N Nunn… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011 - cloudlychen.net
... Liyun Chen Barcelona Graduate School of Economics By Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian. The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011. Liyun Chen (BGSE) ... 1 By Nathan Nunn and Nancy
Qian. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011. Why potatoes? ...
N Qian - 2005 - sticerd.lse.ac.uk
Abstract Economists have long argued that the severe sex imbalance which exists in many
developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. However, observed
association between sex ratios and economic conditions may not reflect their true effect to ...
E Duflo, A Banerjee, J Angrist… - 2005 - dspace.mit.edu
This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in empirical development
economics using data from China. In the first two chapters, I examine the determinants of
choices within the household. In the first chapter, I estimate the causal effects of total ...
L Iyer,
X Meng, N Qian… - 2012 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract This study provides novel and rigorous empirical evidence on the origins of new
private enterprises and their contribution to China's urban labor market transition. We
establish that: i) untying access to urban housing from working for the state sector, which ...
X Meng… - 2008 - people.anu.edu.au
Abstract In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from both world
wars combined. Yet we know little about why the intensity of famines can vary so much
geo% graphically or what the long run effects of exposure are to survivors. This paper ...
[CITATION] The Impact of Potatoes on World Population and Urbanization during the 18th and 19th Centuries: Evidence from a Historic Natural Experiment
N Qian - 2004 - piketty.pse.ens.fr
Abstract There is a negative correlation between quantity and quality of children across
countries and across households within a country. However, because parents
simultaneously choose the quantity and quality of their children, the observed correlation ...
N Qian… - 2009 - econ-new.stanford.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the US
government influenced news coverage during the latter part of the Cold War (1976-88). We
establish two reduced form relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the US government ...
[CITATION] Village Democracy: The Effects of Increased Accountability on Inequality and Production (Preliminary and Incomplete)
M Martinez-Bravo, G Padro-i-Miquel, N Qian… - 2009
N Qian… - 2009 - mcgill.ca
Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which the government can strategically distort
a free media market by examining the effect of the US State Departmentss bias in human
rights reporting on coverage in the New York Times. To establish causality, we exploit a ...
N Qian… - Working Papers, 2010 - econpapers.repec.org
In this paper regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time
variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas is being
exploited, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. ...
M Martínez-Bravo, GP i Miquel, N Qian… - 2012 - www-prd.gsb.stanford.edu
Abstract This study investigates the effect of the introduction of elections on public goods
and redistribution in the context of rural China. Our study collects a unique survey to
document the history of political reforms and economic policies in 217 villages for the ...
M Martínez-Bravo, GP i Miquel, N Qian… - 2012 - irs.princeton.edu
Abstract We investigate the effect of the introduction of elections on public goods and
redistribution in rural China. We collect a large and unique survey to document the history of
political reforms and economic policies. We exploit the staggered timing of the introduction ...
N Qian… - 2010 - cepr.org
Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the US
government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships:
1) strategic objectives of the US government cause the State Department to under-report ...
N Qian… - 2010 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the effect of strategic objectives of the US government on
news coverage in the US commercial press. We exploit novel variation in a country's
strategic value to the United States to establish two causal relationships: 1) strategic ...
This paper examines the effect of US food aid on conflict in recipient countries. To establish
a causal relationship, we exploit time variation in food aid caused by fluctuations in US
wheat production together with cross-sectional variation in a country's tendency to receive ...
[CITATION] Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Limited Democracy in Rural China
M Martinez-Bravo, G Padró-i-Miquel, N Qian…
In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars
combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing
about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this ...
We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation
arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of
potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction ...
T Piketty… - 2006 - cepr.org
This paper evaluates the prospects for income tax reform in China during the coming
decade (with a comparison to India), and argues that such reforms should rank high on the
policy agenda in these two countries. Due to high average income growth and sharply ...
MJ Lin, JT Liu… - 2008 - cepr.org
Many countries with" deficits" in their female population see banning sex-selective abortion
as a way to curb the observed sex imbalance without discussing potentially negative
unintended consequences of this ban on female survival rates as parents may be forced ...
[CITATION] Aiding Conflict: The Unintended Consequences of US Food Aid on Civil War, 1976-2004 (Preliminary and Incomplete)
M Martinez-Bravo, G Padró-i-Miquel, N Qian… - 2010 - bcep.haas.berkeley.edu
Abstract This paper examines the impact of an increase in leader accountability in the
context of rural China. We collect a unique nationwide survey on the history of electoral
reforms in 217 rural Chinese villages (1980-2005) and exploit variation in the timing of the ...
X Meng… - 2006 - econ.berkeley.edu
Abstract Millions of individuals have perished from famine in the past century. Surprisingly
little is known about the long run impacts of famines on survivors. This paper estimates the
effect of childhood malnutrition on adult outcomes by estimating the long run impact of ...
N Qian… - 2008 - cepr.org
This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States
biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters' strategic value. We use the
difference between the US State Department's and Amnesty International's reports as a ...
M Martinez-Bravo, GP i Miquel, N Qian… - 2011 - cepr.org
We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. We develop a simple
model to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, ...
X Meng, N Qian… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper presents new facts about China's Great Famine and develops a theory
of famine to explain them. First, in 1959, when the famine began, food production was
almost three times more than population subsistence needs. Second, we uncover a very ...
N Qian - 2004 - amusing.mit.edu
Abstract Severe sex imbalance exists in many developing countires. However, the observed
association between sex ratios and economic conditions reflect ommitted variables such as
sex preference. This paper uses exogenous increases in agricultural income and relative ...
N Qian - 2012 - econ.yale.edu
Throughout history, local governance has been one of the key challenges for the central
authority of China, a large and heterogeneous country in terms of both its geographical size
and population. In this entry, I briefly discuss a few of the most pressing issues of local ...
D Lagakos, B Moll… - 2012 - siteresources.worldbank.org
Abstract Using recently available large-sample micro data, we add to existing development
accounting exercises by: i) allowing the returns to worker experience to vary across
countries; and ii) using a higher order polynomial functional form to estimate the ...
X Meng, N Qian… - 2010 - eief.it
Abstract This study investigates the causes of China's Great Famine. We present two
empirical findings: 1) food production in 1959, which was 13% below that of the previous
year, was still almost three times as much as what was needed to avert famine-induced ...
M Martinez-Bravo, G Padro-i-Miquel, N Qian… - 2009 - nber.org
Abstract This paper uses a unique nationally representative data set of political reforms
during 1980-2005 and a fixed effects strategy to study the effects of increased leadership
accountability on economic and social outcomes in rural China. The results show that ...
N Nunn… - 2009 - nber.org
Abstract This paper investigates the widely held belief that donor-driven food aid does not
achieve the primary objective of food aid, which is to improve health conditions. We exploit
plausibly exogenous variation in the amount of US food aid received by Sub-Sahara ...
X Meng, N Qian… - 2010 - cepr.org
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two
empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three
times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food ...
N Qian - iariw.org
Many policy makers in developing countries see restricting family size a good strategy for
increasing average human capital investment. This belief is consistent with the observed
negative correlation between quantity and quality of children both across countries and ...
N Qian - 2005 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in empirical
development economics using data from China. In the first two chapters, I examine the
determinants of choices within the household. In the first chapter, I estimate the causal ...
N Qian… - 2009 - nber.org
Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which the government can strategically
ma'nipulate news in a highly competitive media market comprised of independently owned
outlets. We examine the effect of the US State Departmentss favorably under'reporting of ...
X Meng… - 2009 - profluming.com
Abstract This paper uses newly available data to present novel evidence for the causes of
the largest famine in world history. First, we show that although production in 1959 fell from
previous years, it was sufficient for subsistence. Second, we show that famine intensity ...
N Qian - 2005 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
Abstract Many policy makers in developing countries see restricting family size as a good
strategy for increasing average human capital investment. This belief is consistent with the
observed negative correlation between quantity and quality of children both across ...
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