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C. Simon Fan
Researcher at Lingnan University
Publications - 58
Citations - 1855
C. Simon Fan is an academic researcher from Lingnan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & Wage. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 52 publications receiving 1679 citations. Previous affiliations of C. Simon Fan include University of Warsaw & University of Bonn.
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Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine and explore two new data sources, an original cross-national data set on particular types of decentralization and the results of a firm level survey conducted in 80 countries about firms' concrete experiences with bribery.
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The law of one price: evidence from the transitional economy of china
C. Simon Fan,Xiangdong Wei +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the recently developed econometric methods of panel unit root tests and nonlinear mean reversion to investigate price convergence in China, the largest transitional economy in the world.
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Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment) and distinguished impacts of absence of one versus both parents.
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International migration and "educated unemployment"
C. Simon Fan,Oded Stark +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple job-search framework was proposed to explain the phenomenon of "educated unemployment" in developing countries, which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries.
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The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment
Oded Stark,C. Simon Fan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that compared with a closed economy, an economy open to migration differs not only in the opportunities that workers face but also in the structure of the incentives that they confront; higher prospective returns to human capital in a foreign country impinge favourably on human capital formation decisions at home.