How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries?

We study the impact of preschool quality on off-farm work participation among women. We first develop a theoretical model that predicts higher qualities of preschools increase the likelihood of women’s off-farm labor force participation.

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs.

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries.

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This chapter discusses the linkages between agriculture, food, and nutrition in China.

Agriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped.

This paper examines the effect of both cumulative and transitory exposures to air pollution for the same individuals over time on cognitive performance by matching a nationally representative longitudinal survey and air quality data in China accor

While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population.

The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost.

Using imbalanced sex ratios, obtained from industrial firms in China & the national patent database, to test how female labor scarcity affects corporate innovation.