Lei, Xiaoyan; Hu, Yuqing; McArdle, John J.; Smith, James P. - In: Journal of Human Resources 47 (2012) 4
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older …, a largely agricultural and poor province in the West—in a sense new and old China. Our cognition measures proxy for two … these gender differences in cognitive ability have been steadily decreasing across birth cohorts as the economy of China …