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Three essays on infrastructure investment in China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on infrastructure investment in China./
Author:	Qin, Yu.
Description:	143 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-04A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3647221
ISBN:	9781321372724

Three essays on infrastructure investment in China.
Qin, Yu.

Three essays on infrastructure investment in China. - 143 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

My dissertation examines the consequences of the massive infrastructure investment in China from three different aspects. In the first chapter, I examine the distributional impacts of high-speed rail upgrade in China. By exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in whether counties were affected by this project, I find that relative to non-affected counties, affected counties on the upgraded railway lines suffered a 4--6 percent reduction in GDP and GDP per capita following the upgrade, which can be explained largely by the concurrent drop in fixed asset investment. In addition, since high-speed rail upgrade affects transportation of passengers and not transportation of goods, the negative impact of the upgrade is significant in the service sector and not in the manufacturing sector. A possible mechanism consistent with the core-periphery model is also discussed in this chapter. In the second chapter, I use four waves of a primary panel household survey conducted in 17 remote natural villages in China to study how road access shapes farmers' production patterns, input use, and rural poverty. The results show that access to roads facilitates specialization in agricultural production. In natural villages with better road access, farmers plant fewer numbers of crops, purchase more fertilizer, and hire more labor. Consequently, road connections improve household agricultural income and reduce poverty. However, better access to rural roads does not appear to bring about significant changes in nonagricultural income. In the third chapter, I study whether the increasing insecurity of home ownership being reported in the media induces urban households to save more in Chinese cities, which is in favor of the precautionary savings motive. Using Difference GMM models, I find that worse insecurity of home ownership, as indicated by more frequent forced evictions, leads to higher household savings rate at the prefecture city level. In addition, I find that the impact could work through a reduction of home purchase due to forced evictions, as well as precautionary savings motive of existing home owners.

ISBN: 9781321372724Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Three essays on infrastructure investment in China.
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