Blood for Social Status: Preliminary Evidence from Rural China
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy; Production Economics; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2009-05-16 (Development)
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