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Does New Rural Pension Scheme decrease elderly labor supply? evidence from CHARLS / Ning, Manxiu; Gong, Jinquan ; Zheng, Xuhui ; Zhuang, Jun

Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
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This paper examines the effect of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) on the labor supply behavior of the elderly in rural China. Using pooled data from two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) and an analytical framework of combination of regression discontinuity design and difference in difference method (RD-DiD), we find no evidence that pension receipt from the NRPS program does significantly induce the elderly to withdraw from the labor market. The heterogeneous effects by health status indicate that pension recipient slightly decreases the probability of labor force participation for those individuals with chronic diseases; however, the effect is not statistically significant. The empirical findings suggest that the introduction of the NRPS program does not improve the welfare effect of the originally targeted elder individuals with illness.

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Labor Supply ; Difference In Difference ; Regression Discontinuity Design ; New Rural Pension Scheme

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Short-run effects of the Croatian war on education, employment, / Kecmanovic, Milica

Kecmanovic, Milica	Journal Article
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2013.

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The recent war in Croatia (1991-1995) has had numerous adverse affects on the country and the economy as a whole. This article investigates the effect that the war had on the educational, employment, and earnings trajectories of the 1971 birth cohort of men. This birth cohort was very likely to be drafted into the armed forces. Using data from the Croatian and Slovenian Labour Force Surveys, the author treats the occurrence of the war as a natural experiment and applies the difference-in-difference framework to compare this cohort to adjacent cohorts, women, and respective cohorts in Slovenia, a neighboring country that did not experience war. The war appears to have had a negative effect on educational outcomes but a small positive effect on employment and earnings outcomes of this cohort of men. Croatia's victory in the war may provide an explanation for the observed preferential treatment of draftees in the labor market.

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Conflict ; Military Operations ; Education ; East Europe ; Slovenia ; Croatia ;
Labor Market ; Ethnic violence ; Six Day War ; Employment ; Earnings ; Military Actions ;
Difference In Difference ; Draftees ; Civil War

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