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0000-0001-9733-8638
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JEEA.12113
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1781705
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2011
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055410000626
Abstract: A salient feature of China's Great Leap Famine is that political radicalism varied enormously across provinces. Using excessive grain procurement as a pertinent measure, we find that such variations were patterned systematically on the political career incentives of Communist Party officials rather than the conventionally assumed ideology or personal idiosyncrasies. Political rank alone can explain 16.83% of the excess death rate: the excess procurement ratio of provinces governed by alternate members of the Central Committee was about 3% higher than in provinces governed by full members, or there was an approximate 1.11‰ increase in the excess death rate. The stronger career incentives of alternate members can be explained by the distinctly greater privileges, status, and power conferred only on the rank of full members of the Central Committee and the “entry barriers” to the Politburo that full members faced.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-01-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1995
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-02-2010
Abstract: The economic role of women in pre-1949 China has been the subject of an ongoing debate. Farm surveys conducted in the highly commercialized region of the Lower Yangzi in the early to mid-twentieth century show that the value of women’s overall economic contribution was very similar to men’s. In particular, while a gendered ision of labor existed, it was likely more notable within sericulture rather than between sericulture (in which women were supposed to specialize) and farming (predominantly a man’s job). Moreover, although men were overrepresented in local wage employment both on and off the farm, the comparatively low economic returns to these activities suggest that economic considerations rather than cultural preferences were the primary reason behind this gendered specialization. Equally important, although outnumbered by men, women were able to migrate and, conditional on employment in this better remunerated sector, they contributed equally to remittance income.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4133858
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 16-05-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050714000345
Abstract: We examine the impact of rigorous trade suppression during 1550–1567 on the sharp rise of piracy in this period of Ming China. By analyzing a uniquely constructed historical data set, we find that the enforcement of a “sea (trade) ban” policy led to a rise in pirate attacks that was 1.3 times greater among the coastal prefectures more suitable for silk manufactures—our proxy for greater trade potential. Our study illuminates the conflicts in which China subsequently engaged with the Western powers, conflicts that eventually resulted in the forced abandonment of its long upheld autarkic principle.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date: 02-2006
DOI: 10.3368/LE.82.1.36
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2793790
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3822839
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2291081
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 10-2003
DOI: 10.1086/380584
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 24-04-2014
DOI: 10.1017/PSRM.2014.6
Abstract: Using China's Great Leap Famine as ex le, this article shows how political career incentives can produce disastrous outcomes under the well-intended policies of a dictator. By exploiting a regression discontinuity design, the study identifies the causal effect of membership status in the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee—full (FM) Versus alternate members (AM)—on grain procurement. It finds that the difference in grain procurement between AMs and FMs who ranked near the discontinuity threshold is three times that between all AMs and all FMs on average. This may explain why Mao exceptionally promoted some lower-ranked but radical FMs shortly before the Leap: to create a demonstration effect in order to spur other weakly motivated FMs into action.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4284253
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 21-03-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 07-2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 22-10-2018
DOI: 10.1093/QJE/QJY027
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-09-2022
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 07-1997
DOI: 10.2307/2950334
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 08-2011
DOI: 10.1162/REST_A_00106
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date: 08-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1993
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4128095
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4134131
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1016/J.COLSURFB.2005.11.019
Abstract: Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was covalently immobilized onto cellulose acetate (CA) membranes. The effects of CLA immobilization on the blood coagulation, platelet aggregation, and oxidative stress were evaluated using human blood. The resulting CLA grafting CA membranes were characterized with X-ray photoelectronic spectroscopy (XPS). The complete blood count (CBC) and coagulation time (CT) was evaluated in vitro for the hemocompatibility. Human serum albumin (HSA) and human plasma fibrinogen (HPF) was evaluated for the protein affinity. The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was measured by chemiluminescence (CL) method to evaluate the oxidative stress. The results showed that the CLA-immobilizing CA membrane could keep the CBC values more stable than unmodified CA membrane. The CLA-immobilized CA membranes also showed longer CT and less adsorption of plasma proteins. CLA-immobilized CA membrane could keep the CL counts of hydrogen peroxide and superoxide values more stable than unmodified CA membrane. These results suggest that a CLA-immobilized CA membrane could offer protection for patients against oxidative stress and would be helpful for reducing the dosage of anticoagulant during hemodialysis.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-01-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-05-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 28-02-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3255796
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3749022
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 10-2001
DOI: 10.1086/321915
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3960074
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4190118
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 28-02-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2016
DOI: 10.1111/ECCA.12212
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1997
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.3368/LE.90.3.434
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2607777
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 07-2002
DOI: 10.1086/343135
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-06-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2102295
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3748521
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-04-2020
DOI: 10.1093/EJ/UEAA043
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741008000829
Abstract: A farm survey conducted in Wuxi county in the 1950s found that the Chinese Communist Party had successfully “preserved the rich peasant economy” in the “newly liberated areas”: the landlords were indeed the only social class whose properties had been redistributed, yet without compromising on the magnitude of benefits received by the poor peasants. A higher land inequality in that region, coupled with an inter-village transfer of land, allowed these dual goals to be achieved. Our study further reveals that class status was determined both by the amount of land a household owned and whether it had committed certain “exploitative acts,” which explains why some landlords did not own a vast amount of land. Conversely, it was the amount of land owned, not class status, that determined redistributive entitlements, which was why 15 per cent of the poor peasants and half of the middle peasants were not redistributed any land.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-09-2022
DOI: 10.1093/EJ/UEAC060
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-1992
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2000
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 04-06-2022
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 04-06-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1994
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