John Giles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3710157 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Giles |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Giles |
| ASSINATURA | GILES J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1935-6632 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The path to healthy ageing in China
The effect of height on earnings
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants
Is consanguinity an impediment to child development
Marriages between blood relatives-also known as consanguineous unions-are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward, as the decision to marry a relative might be endogenous to other socio-economic factors. Using a unique data set collected in rural Pakistan, this paper assesses the extent…
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China
Using the baseline wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), collected from 2011 to 2012, this study finds that among those age 60 and above, women are 7.6 percent more likely than men to have care needs and 29.3 percent more likely than men to have unmet needs; and that most of the gender gap in unmet needs is explained by the existence and health status of a spouse. Further analysis reveals a sharp gender division in …
Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China
Using the baseline wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), collected from 2011 to 2012, this study finds that among those age 60 and above, women are 7.6 percent more likely than men to have care needs and 29.3 percent more likely than men to have unmet needs; and that most of the gender gap in unmet needs is explained by the existence and health status of a spouse. Further analysis reveals a sharp gender division in …
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis
The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China
Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. Concerns about welfare of the rural elderly combine spatial and demographic issues. Large gaps exist between conditions in coastal and interior regions and between conditions in urban and rural areas of the country. In addition to differ…
Patterns and Correlates of Intergenerational Non-Time Transfers
Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children in Zhejiang and Gansu Provinces. The pilot is a unique data source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their children, and clearly distinguishes transfers between parents and childre…
Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China
Journal Article Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China? Get access Dwayne Benjamin, Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Loren Brandt, Loren Brandt University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Giles John Giles The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economi…
Can China's rural elderly count on support from adult children? Implications of rural-to-urban migration
This paper shows that support from the family continues to be an important source of support for the rural elderly, particularly the rural elderly over 70 years of age. Decline in likelihood of co-residence with, or in close proximity to, adult children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers sugg…
A Control Function Approach To Estimating Dynamic Probit Models With Endogenous Regressors, With An Application To The Study Of Poverty Persistence In China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. This approach is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. The model is next used to examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this…
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Off-farm Employment and Earnings in Rural China
Chronic and transient poverty
Migrant Opportunity And The Educational Attainment Of Youth In Rural China
This paper investigates how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution, which made it easier for rural migrants to register as temporary residents in urban destinations. The analysis first shows that timing of identification card d…
Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks, and Household Consumption Decisions
We develop a test of precautionary behavior in the consumption decisions of rural agricultural households. Among surveyed households facing a median level of consumption risk, 10% of savings can be attributed to a precautionary motive, and this increases to 15% for households with consumption per capita below the poverty line. We next use distant lags of local rainfall shocks uncorrelated with current consumption growth to identify the size of mi…
Elderly parent health and the migration decisions of adult children
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This article addresses the question of how participation is affected by elderly parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor health of an elderly parent has less impact on the probability of employment as a migrant when an adult child has siblings…
Is life more risky in the open? Household risk-coping and the opening of China's labor markets
The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China
In this article we analyze trends in income inequality and the distribution of income in rural China from 1987 to 1999. We find an uneven but long‐run increase in inequality in rural China and show that nearly half of the rural population was not much better off in 1999 than at the start of the period. We rule out geography as the most important factor for explaining income differences and the increases that occurred over time. Much more importan…
Competition under credit rationing
Leaving China's Farms
One of the striking outcomes of China's economic reforms is the emergence of inter-regional labour markets as rural workers have poured into the nation's urban and rural economies. Policy makers in China, as elsewhere in the world, have treated the inter-regional migrant labour force with ambiguity. Migration may increase efficiency, contribute to poverty reduction and make China's economy more competitive, but leaders fear the congestion, social…
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
Elderly parent health and the migration decisions of adult children
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This article addresses the question of how participation is affected by elderly parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor health of an elderly parent has less impact on the probability of employment as a migrant when an adult child has siblings…
Chronic and transient poverty
Is life more risky in the open? Household risk-coping and the opening of China's labor markets
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Off-farm Employment and Earnings in Rural China
The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China
In this article we analyze trends in income inequality and the distribution of income in rural China from 1987 to 1999. We find an uneven but long‐run increase in inequality in rural China and show that nearly half of the rural population was not much better off in 1999 than at the start of the period. We rule out geography as the most important factor for explaining income differences and the increases that occurred over time. Much more importan…
Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China
Journal Article Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China? Get access Dwayne Benjamin, Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Loren Brandt, Loren Brandt University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Giles John Giles The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economi…
Competition under credit rationing
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China
Using the baseline wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), collected from 2011 to 2012, this study finds that among those age 60 and above, women are 7.6 percent more likely than men to have care needs and 29.3 percent more likely than men to have unmet needs; and that most of the gender gap in unmet needs is explained by the existence and health status of a spouse. Further analysis reveals a sharp gender division in …
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants
Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis
Is consanguinity an impediment to child development
Marriages between blood relatives-also known as consanguineous unions-are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward, as the decision to marry a relative might be endogenous to other socio-economic factors. Using a unique data set collected in rural Pakistan, this paper assesses the extent…
Leaving China's Farms
One of the striking outcomes of China's economic reforms is the emergence of inter-regional labour markets as rural workers have poured into the nation's urban and rural economies. Policy makers in China, as elsewhere in the world, have treated the inter-regional migrant labour force with ambiguity. Migration may increase efficiency, contribute to poverty reduction and make China's economy more competitive, but leaders fear the congestion, social…
Competition under credit rationing
Is life more risky in the open? Household risk-coping and the opening of China's labor markets
The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China
In this article we analyze trends in income inequality and the distribution of income in rural China from 1987 to 1999. We find an uneven but long‐run increase in inequality in rural China and show that nearly half of the rural population was not much better off in 1999 than at the start of the period. We rule out geography as the most important factor for explaining income differences and the increases that occurred over time. Much more importan…
Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks, and Household Consumption Decisions
We develop a test of precautionary behavior in the consumption decisions of rural agricultural households. Among surveyed households facing a median level of consumption risk, 10% of savings can be attributed to a precautionary motive, and this increases to 15% for households with consumption per capita below the poverty line. We next use distant lags of local rainfall shocks uncorrelated with current consumption growth to identify the size of mi…
Elderly parent health and the migration decisions of adult children
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This article addresses the question of how participation is affected by elderly parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor health of an elderly parent has less impact on the probability of employment as a migrant when an adult child has siblings…
Migrant Opportunity And The Educational Attainment Of Youth In Rural China
This paper investigates how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution, which made it easier for rural migrants to register as temporary residents in urban destinations. The analysis first shows that timing of identification card d…
Chronic and transient poverty
Can China's rural elderly count on support from adult children? Implications of rural-to-urban migration
This paper shows that support from the family continues to be an important source of support for the rural elderly, particularly the rural elderly over 70 years of age. Decline in likelihood of co-residence with, or in close proximity to, adult children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers sugg…
A Control Function Approach To Estimating Dynamic Probit Models With Endogenous Regressors, With An Application To The Study Of Poverty Persistence In China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. This approach is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. The model is next used to examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this…
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Off-farm Employment and Earnings in Rural China
Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China
Journal Article Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China? Get access Dwayne Benjamin, Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Loren Brandt, Loren Brandt University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Giles John Giles The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economi…
The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China
Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. Concerns about welfare of the rural elderly combine spatial and demographic issues. Large gaps exist between conditions in coastal and interior regions and between conditions in urban and rural areas of the country. In addition to differ…
Patterns and Correlates of Intergenerational Non-Time Transfers
Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children in Zhejiang and Gansu Provinces. The pilot is a unique data source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their children, and clearly distinguishes transfers between parents and childre…
Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China
Using the baseline wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), collected from 2011 to 2012, this study finds that among those age 60 and above, women are 7.6 percent more likely than men to have care needs and 29.3 percent more likely than men to have unmet needs; and that most of the gender gap in unmet needs is explained by the existence and health status of a spouse. Further analysis reveals a sharp gender division in …
Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China
Using the baseline wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), collected from 2011 to 2012, this study finds that among those age 60 and above, women are 7.6 percent more likely than men to have care needs and 29.3 percent more likely than men to have unmet needs; and that most of the gender gap in unmet needs is explained by the existence and health status of a spouse. Further analysis reveals a sharp gender division in …
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
Is consanguinity an impediment to child development
Marriages between blood relatives-also known as consanguineous unions-are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward, as the decision to marry a relative might be endogenous to other socio-economic factors. Using a unique data set collected in rural Pakistan, this paper assesses the extent…
The effect of height on earnings
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants
The path to healthy ageing in China
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