...Vardges Hovhannisyan; Serhat Asci Purpose We seek to quantify the relationship between urbanization and economic growth in China using recent advances in econometric techniques. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression (SIVQR...

... proximity to rural secondary schools to create instrumental variables (IV) for individuals’ years of schooling. It addresses both endogenous schooling and self-selection using the two-step procedure developed in Wooldridge (2002, p. 586). Findings The preferred IV estimate of schooling returns, 7.6...

... on famine, a formal model is constructed as follow: Instrumental variables Communal dining system Gfields decomposition Great Leap Famine More than half century has elapsed since the end of the Great Leap Famine, the greatest one in human history. It has become clear through scholars’ effort...