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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise ...A Book Launch
Video About the event As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2021/lapp-invisible-china-urban-rural-divide
The Intergenerational Effects of Market Access: Evidence from Rural India
Close to a billion people today live in poorly connected areas without access to all-weather roads. In response, countries around the world spent 3.75 percent of global GDP in 2015 on improving transport infrastructure. But are these investments likely to be pro-poor? In this paper, we examine the impact of improved ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/ahsan-intergenerational-effects-of-market-access-evidence-from-rural-india
What to buy when the American Dream fails?
Live Broadcast Event Summary Although socioeconomic status has been a fundamental concept marketing professionals employ to explain and predict consumer behaviors, we know relatively little about the shopping preferences of those who are moving from one socioeconomic status to another. In her academic seminar, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/chen-what-to-buy-when-the-american-dream-fails
Creating Skills to Promote Social Opportunity and Reduce Poverty
Key insights James Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture organized by the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study and cosponsored by HKUST IEMS drawing from recent advances in economics, sociology, and child development to emphasize ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/creating-skills-to-promote-social-opportunity-and-reduce-poverty-james-heckman
Registration Status, Occupational Segregation, and Rural Migrants in Urban China
Abstract Xiaogang Wu examines the central role of occupation as the “reward packages” in creating earnings disparities between rural migrants and local workers in urban China’s labor markets. He analyses data from the population mini-census of China in 2005 which shows that, rural ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/xiaogang-wu-registration-status-occupational-segregation-and-rural-migrants-in-urban-china
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