Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-term Income: Evidence from Rural China*
Li Gan
Associate professor
Department of Economics
Texas A&M University
and
NBER
Lixin Colin Xu
Senior economist
Research Group
The World Bank
Yang Yao
Professor
China Center for Economic Research
Peking University
NO. E2006012 Oct. 9, 2006
* We thank Martin Feldstein, Justin Lin, John Strauss, Zhixiong Zeng, and participants of seminars in the International Food Policy Research Institute, Nankai University, Peking University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for their helpful comments. Mengtao Gao, Shuna Wang, and Shenwei Zhang provided superb research assistance. The Research Center of Rural Economy, the Ministry of Agriculture, the People’s Republic of China provided assistance in data collection. Financial supports from the Chinese Medical Board, the World Bank, and the National 211 Project of China are greatly appreciated. Corresponding author: Yang Yao, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University. Phone: 86-10-6275-3103; fax: 86-10-6275-1474; email: yyao@ccer.pku.edu.cn.
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