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Yu Xie
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 197
Citations - 15556
Yu Xie is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 180 publications receiving 12934 citations. Previous affiliations of Yu Xie include University of Michigan & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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An Evaluation of Poverty Prevalence in China: New Evidence from Four Recent Surveys
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors calculated and compared the poverty incidence rate in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010, the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), the Chinese Household Finance Survey (CHFS) of 2011, and Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) of 2007.
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Marginal Treatment Effects from a Propensity Score Perspective.
Xiang Zhou,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: A propensity score perspective is offered to interpret and analyze the marginal treatment effect (MTE) as the expected treatment effect conditional on the propensity score and a latent variable representing unobserved resistance to treatment.
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Heterogeneity in returns to college education: selection bias in contemporary taiwan.
Shu-Ling Tsai,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: Heterogeneous treatment effects of higher education on earnings resulting from sorting mechanisms that select individuals with certain unobserved attributes into college education are illustrated using a newly developed instrumental-variable method in economics.
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Changes in Earnings Returns to Higher Education in Taiwan since the 1990s
Shu-Ling Tsai,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Chen et al. used a truncated-sample model to estimate college effects on earnings using both the conventional Mincer-type regression model and the revised truncated sample model that adjusts for the selection mechanisms into college.
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It's whom you know that counts
TL;DR: The election of membership to the two most prestigious scientific organizations, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the CAE, appears to be influenced by “guanxi,” or social network, as measured by hometown ties between candidates and selection committee members.