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The health effect of the clean energy transition on middle-aged and elderly farmers: Evidence from clean heating program in China 清洁能源转型对中老年农民健康的影响：来自中国清洁供暖项目的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101924

Fanlue Li , Ke He , Run Zhu

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The impact of artificial intelligence on labor market: A study based on bibliometric analysis 人工智能对劳动力市场的影响：基于文献计量学分析的研究

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101926

Huilin Zhou , Linhui Wang , Yutong Cao , Jincheng Li

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Firm-level impacts and recovery dynamics following a public health crisis: Lessons from China’s SARS experience 公共卫生危机后企业层面的影响和恢复动态：中国 SARS 经验的启示

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101925

Zhanyu Dong , Jiayi Cai , Xuchao Li , Mengna Luan

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Legislating filial obligations: Property rights and filial piety in shogunate Japan 孝道立法：日本幕府的财产权与孝道

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101923

Masaki Nakabayashi

{"title":"Legislating filial obligations: Property rights and filial piety in shogunate Japan","authors":"Masaki Nakabayashi","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Continental European countries and Japan maintain far larger welfare states than their Anglophone counterparts do, particularly in terms of elderly care. One reason for this difference is the filial obligations of adult children toward their retired parents, as mandated by the family laws of continental European countries and Japan, such that the welfare state and family security are substitutes; a retreat of the state’s role implies an increase in the burden incurred by the family. We investigate Japan’s evolutionary process of filial support, ranging from an encouraged norm to a legal requirement for the protection of property rights in the eighteenth century under the Edo (Tokugawa) shogunate law. Facing its first population aging in the eighteenth century, Tokugawa Japan transformed filial support as a norm into a legal mandate by conditioning the protection of family property rights on the fulfillment of filial obligations by the household head who inherited family property before his parents’ death. Nonfulfillment necessitated the revocation of household head status and devolution of the family property to the new household head, through which the shogunate indirectly enforced filial obligations. While the household head revocation system was not incorporated into the Civil Code of 1896, the Civil Code explicitly defined filial obligations as being enforceable on their own. The current large welfare state of Japan is directly rooted in filial obligations stipulated by its modern family law, and the origin of its filial obligations dates back to a legislation by the shogunate in the late eighteenth century.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101923"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817368","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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Air quality impacts of EV promotion: Evidence from local charging pile adoption in China 电动汽车推广对空气质量的影响：来自中国地方充电桩采用的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101922

Ye Wang , Feng Yu , Faqin Lin , Kuo Feng

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Regional employment during recessions and recoveries in Japan: A data-driven approach 日本经济衰退和复苏期间的区域就业：数据驱动的方法

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101917

Yusuke Adachi , Hikaru Ogawa , Masafumi Tsubuku

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How digital technology can improve new quality productive forces? ——Perspective of total factor agricultural carbon productivity 数字技术如何提高新的优质生产力？——农业全要素碳生产率视角

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101921

Hongman Liu, Xixi Li

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Investment growth target and the composition of government expenditure: Theory and evidence from China 投资增长目标与政府支出构成：来自中国的理论与证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101920

Zhaoqiang Zhang , Jie Li , Yunyang Ji

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Rural road improvement and individual health in China 中国农村道路改善与个人健康

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101908

Tao Bu , Daisheng Tang , Zheng Zhang , Chengkai Jiang

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Still water runs deep: Soft power in chinese prefectures and municipalities 静水流深：中国地级市的软实力

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101909

Shihan Li , Si Li , Qingfu Liu , Xiao Wei

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