Does fortune favor dragons?

Johnson, Noel D.; Nye, John V. C.

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.12.010

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“…Johnson and Nye (2011) find that Asian immigrants to the United States born in the 1976 Dragon year are more educated than comparable immigrants from non-Dragon years. Johnson and Nye (2011) find that Asian immigrants to the United States born in the 1976 Dragon year are more educated than comparable immigrants from non-Dragon years.…”

Section: A Threats To Identification Via the Dragon Effectmentioning

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Astronomics in Action: The Graduate Earnings Premium and the Dragon Effect in Singapore

Sim

2014

Economic Inquiry

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This paper investigates the return to university education in Singapore using a new estimation strategy related to Chinese traditions where children born in the Year of the Dragon are believed to be superior. Because parents might time the arrival of their offspring on a Dragon year, this causes the Dragon cohort to be larger and university entry to be more competitive. First, we find evidence of a negative "Dragon effect" on university educational attainment. Then, using it as an estimation strategy, we find that university education has a ceteris paribus effect of raising earnings by at least 50% on average. (JEL I21, C26, J30) While U.S. and Latin American currencies portray images of national independence heroes, Singapore's 2-dollar bill -the most widely circulated since there is no smaller denomination -shows students in a classroom listening to a professor, with a university in the background. Underneath, there is just one word,

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Section: A Threats To Identification Via the Dragon Effectmentioning

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Astronomics in Action: The Graduate Earnings Premium and the Dragon Effect in Singapore

Sim

2014

Economic Inquiry

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“…However, the validity of this observation requires further inspection. Johnson and Nye (2011) have found some 'dragon effects' among the Asian immigrants in the USA, but not the general US population. To be sure, the USA has no such birth sign traditions.…”

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Crouching tigers hidden dragons: on the myth of the two birth signs

Hung

Yang

Lee

2016

Asian Population Studies

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“…Although research on zodiac animals and birth timing shows that zodiac preferences exist among certain Chinese communities and diasporas, such as ‘dragon babies’ (children born in the years of the dragon) have higher birth rates than babies born in other animal years, such as the so called ‘dragon effects’ (Hung et al., , p. 226), ‘dragon year fertility spikes’ (Goodkind, , p. 680) or ‘dragon spikes’ (Johnson & Nye, , pp. 85–86), Hung et al.…”

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“…(, p. 220) argue that ‘media reports have exaggerated the tiger and dragon myths out of proportion,’ and they conclude that ‘neither the tiger nor the dragon cohort is, statistically speaking, significantly different from the others’ (Hung et al., , p. 226). Johnson and Nye () have also critically examined whether fortune favours dragons, or the common beliefs among individuals from ‘Confucian’ cultures (for example, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese) that the Year of the Dragon is ‘an auspicious time for business, marriage, and birth. In particular, children born in dragon years are thought to be luckier, brighter, stronger, and more likely to flourish than those born in any other year’ (Johnson & Nye, , p. 86).…”

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Cultural conceptualizations of Chinese zodiac animals in Chinese English

Sharifian

2018

World Englishes

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World Englishes as a discipline has developed more than half a century of research and practice. It is closely connected with such other disciplines as applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied cultural linguistics. In this paper, we adopt a holistic analytical framework drawing upon world Englishes and applied cultural linguistics with reference to lexical borrowing, semantic variation, and cultural conceptualizations to unpack the culturally‐embedded meanings underlying the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. In particular, we explore the cultural meanings of creative expressions that use dragon and horse in Chinese English, for example, the dragon horse spirit, by analysing qualitative data collected through semi‐structured interviews.

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Does fortune favor dragons?

Cited by 44 publications

References 18 publications

Astronomics in Action: The Graduate Earnings Premium and the Dragon Effect in Singapore

Astronomics in Action: The Graduate Earnings Premium and the Dragon Effect in Singapore

Crouching tigers hidden dragons: on the myth of the two birth signs

Cultural conceptualizations of Chinese zodiac animals in Chinese English

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