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College Loans and Human Capital Investment

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT College loans facilitate access to education, but the repayment burden may distort posteducation human capital investment. We examine the role of college loans and loan repayment policies through a structural model of individuals' dynamic decisions on borrowing/saving, labor supply, and costly human capital investment. We estimate two versions
Chao Fu, Hsuan‐Chih (Luke) Lin, Atsuko Tanaka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement, source decomposition, and formation mechanism of differences in the development of China's health services. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Jin F, Zhang X, Zhao Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture.
Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, Xican Xi
wiley   +1 more source

Does cultural service provision contribute to improving public health levels? Empirical evidence from 283 Chinese cities. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Yang L, Wang L, Zhang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Labor Supply and Firm Size

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTLarger firms feature (i) longer hours worked, (ii) higher wages, and (iii) smaller (larger) wage penalties for working long (short) hours. We reconcile these patterns in a general equilibrium model, which features the endogenous interaction of hours, wages, and firm size. In the model, workers willing to work longer hours sort into larger firms
Lin Shao, Faisal Sohail, Emircan Yurdagul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban-rural differences in hospital beds and employee income: a study using the rurality index for healthcare research in Japan. [PDF]

J Rural Med
Murasawa H, Ogata T, Ito H.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Gender Norms and Fertility Decline

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper models fertility as the outcome of gender‐biased technological progress interacting with endogenous social norms governing childcare. When rising female wages outpace norm adjustment, the inherited norm makes reallocating childcare toward fathers costly, so mothers bear a disproportionate burden and the shadow price of children ...
Xican Xi, Anson Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

The Reform That Was Never Completed: Why Greece Must Redesign Its Health Financing Architecture. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Flokou A, Aletras V, Niakas DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI, Linguistic Hierarchies and Unequal Access in Under‐Resourced Educational Contexts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing enthusiasm around generative AI (GenAI) as a transformative force in education, access to these technologies remains profoundly unequal. This qualitative study examines how educators and students in under‐resourced Chinese educational contexts experience unequal access to GenAI and interpret its consequences for language ...
Jinming Du, Qinghua Chen, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of the Mandanas-Garcia Ruling on Local Health Systems. [PDF]

Acta Med Philipp
Nisperos GA, Cabanizas TGG, Bulario JS, Cadiz JMS, Lastino JBP, Siscar JAA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source