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Off-farm employment, farmland transfer and agricultural investment behavior: A study of joint decision-making among North China Plain farmers 非农就业、农地流转与农业投资行为:华北平原农民共同决策研究
IF 2.9 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101839
Mingjun Xu , Changling Chen , Jinhua Xie
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A tale of two markets—would housing appreciation prompt insurance participation? Evidence from China’s urban elderly 两个市场的故事--住房升值能否促进保险参与?来自中国城市老年人的证据
IF 2.9 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101838
Jiajun Han
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Transport development performance with hazard-inducing variables: A frontier-based shadow pricing approach 具有危险诱发变量的运输发展绩效:基于前沿的影子定价方法
IF 2.9 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101837
Ruoyu He , Ruxue Dong , Ruiqi Zhu , Z.Y. Shen , Tomas Baležentis , Lixin Cui
{"title":"Transport development performance with hazard-inducing variables: A frontier-based shadow pricing approach","authors":"Ruoyu He ,&nbsp;Ruxue Dong ,&nbsp;Ruiqi Zhu ,&nbsp;Z.Y. Shen ,&nbsp;Tomas Baležentis ,&nbsp;Lixin Cui","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101837","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While economic growth in a country can be spurred by the expansion of the transportation sector, traffic accidents resulting from an increase in vehicle numbers negatively impact social wellbeing. To integrate both the beneftis and costs in evaluating the transportation sector, this study incorporates traffic accidents as a risk factor (undesirable output) in analyzing the performance of road transportation across Chinese provinces. We propose a shadow price model to estimate the revenue generated and the losses incurred from the addition of each vehicle. The potential improvements in desirable outputs (freight and passenger traffic) and the possible reduction in risks (traffic accident losses) are assessed using a nonparametric approach. Our findings indicate that the overall performance of the Chinese transportation sector improved between 2001 and 2018. During this period, the shadow revenue of vehicles increased, while the shadow loss from traffic accidents showed a declining trend, attributed to enhanced transportation infrastructure and effective government regulations. However, we observe regional disparities in performance and offer targeted policy recommendations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"95 ","pages":"Article 101837"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From ancient philosophy to modern governance: Confucian culture shaping low-carbon corporate transformation in China’s listed companies 从古代哲学到现代治理:儒家文化塑造中国上市公司的低碳企业转型
IF 2.9 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101835
Li Wang , Siyan Chen , Yanan Wang , Yuhan Wu
{"title":"From ancient philosophy to modern governance: Confucian culture shaping low-carbon corporate transformation in China’s listed companies","authors":"Li Wang ,&nbsp;Siyan Chen ,&nbsp;Yanan Wang ,&nbsp;Yuhan Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101835","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101835","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Considering the goal of green development, this study examines the role of Confucian culture in low-carbon corporate transformation. This study shows that Confucian culture can effectively promote the low-carbon transformation of companies. The greater the influence of Confucianism on a company, the higher its level of low-carbon transformation is. Confucian culture takes effect in three ways: by improving corporate environmental awareness, by promoting social responsibility, and by strengthening corporate governance. Heterogeneity research shows that state-owned and low-capital-intensity companies, low-competition and high-attention industries, non-low-carbon pilot programs, and low-marketization areas all increase the extent of influence. The findings shed light on the influence of Confucians on low-carbon transformation at the firm level and enrich the ideas surrounding Confucian culture and corporate development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"95 ","pages":"Article 101835"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Industrial policy and resident health: Historical evidence from China’s Third Front construction 产业政策与居民健康:来自中国三线建设的历史证据
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101668
Chao Wang , Chen Feng , Caiquan Bai
{"title":"Industrial policy and resident health: Historical evidence from China’s Third Front construction","authors":"Chao Wang ,&nbsp;Chen Feng ,&nbsp;Caiquan Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding the impact of industrial policies on residents’ health is of great significance. This study uses the large-scale national defense industry policy entitled the Third Front construction, which was implemented before China’s reform and opening up, as a quasi-natural experiment to empirically examine its long-term impact on residents’ health. The relevant findings are fourfold. (1) The policy significantly improves local residents’ health in the long term. (2) This improvement effect primarily operated through two channels of increasing residents’ income and improving medical security. (3) The effect is obviously heterogeneous for different genders and hukou, with a greater effect on men than women and significant health improvement effects for residents with agricultural hukou. (4) The findings demonstrate that local residents’ lifestyles and mental health were significantly improved due to Third Front construction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101668"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49753971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impact of subsidized distribution on follow-up uptake of vision health services for rural students: A field experiment in China 补助分配对农村学生视力保健服务随访的影响:一项实地实验
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101669
Hongyu Guan , Jin Zhao , Wenting Liu , Yaojiang Shi
{"title":"Impact of subsidized distribution on follow-up uptake of vision health services for rural students: A field experiment in China","authors":"Hongyu Guan ,&nbsp;Jin Zhao ,&nbsp;Wenting Liu ,&nbsp;Yaojiang Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101669","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite rising economic growth, low-income countries continue to exhibit a relatively low uptake of healthcare services and products. Short-term healthcare subsidies are commonly administered in low-income countries to promote long-term uptake of healthcare. To evaluate the impact of follow-up healthcare subsidies, we examined the effects of a one-time subsidy of providing free eyeglasses to school children in rural China. We contribute to the field by using a unique and rare 27-month, two-phase experiment that surveyed 4658 primary and secondary school students from Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in rural northwestern China. The sample was divided into an intervention group that received free eyeglasses for uncorrected refractive errors and a control group that received only prescription information. The impact of one-time subsidized eyeglasses on rural students’ long-term uptake of vision health care vision health was assessed using an instrumental variables (IV) approach. 90.0% of students from the intervention group that received one-time subsidized eyeglasses sought appropriate long-term healthcare, which was significantly higher (P &lt; 0.001) than the control group at 61.3%. Multivariate logistic regression models (OR = 28.315, 95% CI = 10.972–73.074, P &lt; 0.001) revealed that this one-time subsidy of free eyeglasses significantly predicted long-term uptake in related healthcare products and services. IV analysis suggested that wearing eyeglasses may increase the likelihood of students’ long-term uptake by 78.7% in the intervention samples compared to control schools; the magnitude of this coefficient provides evidence that wearing eyeglasses leads to a marginal improvement in long-term uptake within the sample. This result passed a series of robustness tests. Learning by doing and social learning are crucial pathways through which short-term, targeted subsidies might affect long-term adoption, at least for some classes of preventative health items. The provision of short-term, one-off healthcare subsidies can be an efficient and cost-effective strategy for boosting both short-term and long-term healthcare-seeking behavior. Providing a useful reference for promoting long-term health-seeking behavior in rural or other less developed regions in China and elsewhere in the world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101669"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49766304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Parental non-cognitive abilities and child mental health 父母的非认知能力与儿童心理健康
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101667
Yao Wang , Chunchao Wang , Rui Zhang
{"title":"Parental non-cognitive abilities and child mental health","authors":"Yao Wang ,&nbsp;Chunchao Wang ,&nbsp;Rui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parents play a crucial role in the mental health and development of their children. This study investigates the impact of parental non-cognitive abilities on the mental health of their children. Our findings show that parental non-cognitive abilities, especially conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism, positively influence child mental health. This effect varies based on the child’s gender and place of residence. Moreover, disparities in non-cognitive abilities between the father and mother yield a significant negative effect on child mental health. These effects can be ascribed to three primary channels: the influence of parental non-cognitive abilities on the child’s sense of happiness, confidence in the future, and the level of interpersonal communication skills. Furthermore, our findings suggest that cognitive abilities of parents can moderate the influence of their non-cognitive abilities on the mental health of their children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101667"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49766300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trade with innovation benefits: A re-appraisal using micro data from China 贸易与创新利益:基于中国微观数据的再评价
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101664
Meng Cai, Riming Cui , Dan Li
{"title":"Trade with innovation benefits: A re-appraisal using micro data from China","authors":"Meng Cai,&nbsp;Riming Cui ,&nbsp;Dan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, the impact of international trade on firm innovation has received increasing attention. Some scholars argue that knowledge spillovers from trade are beneficial to innovation, while others argue that the intense competition from trade leads to a reduction in innovative activity, based on the Schumpeterian effect. To address this issue, we creatively construct a dataset of Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2014 and conduct empirical tests using propensity score matching to investigate the impact of firms' intermediate goods import behavior on innovation performance at the micro level. We construct models of firms' decisions under closed market conditions and of the impact of intermediate goods imports on firms' innovation activities under open market conditions. Our study shows that firms that import intermediate goods are more innovative, and we validate the robustness of this result. We further discuss the potential mechanisms of how exposure to international markets affects innovation, and we find that firms' import behavior affects innovation through scale effect, technology effect, and profit effect. In short, importing intermediate goods enhances firm-level innovation in developing countries. Our study provides significant evidence on the impact of imports on firm-level innovation performance, and our findings provide a rationale for promoting the co-development of trade and firm innovation. This paper also has important policy implications that governments should continue to reduce trade barriers, promote trade openness, and enhance technology transfer and cooperation in order to reap more innovation benefits from trade.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Climbing the economic ladder: Earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers 攀登经济阶梯:泰国正规工人的收入不平等和代际流动
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101665
Athiphat Muthitacharoen , Trongwut Burong
{"title":"Climbing the economic ladder: Earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers","authors":"Athiphat Muthitacharoen ,&nbsp;Trongwut Burong","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101665","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility among formal workers in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that based on administrative data, is relatively limited in developing countries. Using Thailand’s tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings mobility, and examine the heterogeneity of mobility across age, gender and employment arrangement. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, annual earnings inequality rises during the 2009–2018 period. We find that the inequality is largely permanent, and its increase is primarily driven by top-earnings workers. Second, medium-term mobility tends to be limited at both ends of the earnings distribution, with particularly pronounced persistence observed at the top decile. Our suggestive comparison indicates that Thailand’s earnings mobility is among the lowest in the pool of evidence from both developed and developing countries. Third, there is a considerable heterogeneity in mobility regarding employment arrangement. Workers in less-formal jobs have much lower upward mobility than those in more-formal employment. Our findings also indicate significant heterogeneity in mobility with respect to gender and age.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101665"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preventing a new baby: Impact of air pollution on fertility intention 预防新生儿:空气污染对生育意愿的影响
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101666
Guanglai Zhang , Yanni Yu
{"title":"Preventing a new baby: Impact of air pollution on fertility intention","authors":"Guanglai Zhang ,&nbsp;Yanni Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study is the first to investigate the causal link between air pollution and fertility intentions in China, using data from the 2016 China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey to assess the fertility intentions of different sexes for differentiated groups of respondents. The findings show significant negative effects of air pollution on immediate fertility intentions. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in the daily Air Quality Index in the past three months decreased the immediate fertility intention of interviewees by 0.7527 standard deviations. Moreover, the study reveals that young women who live in more polluted areas show a higher reduction in fertility intention than their counterparts. The results illustrate that air pollution is a key contributor to the son preference and that there is still a marked preference for sons over daughters in China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 101666"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49759738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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