unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China, we explicitly … effects. Our results highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …

in China (RUMiC), we find that network size matters significantly for migrant workers. Our preferred IV estimates suggest …

Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …

unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …

China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did …

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban …, creating a unique exogenous opportunity for children with urban fathers and rural mothers to obtain urban hukou. Using China …

Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … times across different provinces. By utilizing nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies, we find … and child cognitive scores by an approximately 1% standard deviation in rural China, indicating a reduction of 3.5% in …