| dc.contributor.advisor | Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Joshua Angrist. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Qian, Nancy | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | a-cc--- | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-03-29T18:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-03-29T18:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2005 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32399 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in empirical development economics using data from China. In the first two chapters, I examine the determinants of choices within the household. In the first chapter, I estimate the causal effects of total income, relative female and relative male income on sex imbalance. The second chapter studies the effects of relaxations in the One Child Policy on sex ratios and family size and then exploits the exogenous variation in family size caused by the relaxations to estimate the causal effect of family size on school enrollment. The third chapter is a descriptive study of income inequality for top income earners in China during 1986-2002 and the potential redistributive effectiveness of progressive income taxation. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Nancy Qian. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 133 p. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 7467022 bytes | |
| dc.format.extent | 7472387 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | |
| dc.subject | Economics. | en_US |
| dc.title | Three essays on development economics in China | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | 3 essays on development economics in China | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 61690854 | en_US |
