incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

apply these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over …. -- poverty dynamics ; transient poverty ; chronic poverty ; permanent poverty ; China …

attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …

China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … evaluating our identification strategy. -- migration ; migrant networks ; consumption ; poverty ; wealth ; rural China …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …