This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …

This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using cross-sectional data on rural households … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ: individual …

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …

Using the latest forest inventory, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of China's forest sector by focusing on … dynamics of forest resources and provide an impact assessment of forest policies on China's forestry development over the last … and their implications for China and supplying countries are assessed …

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that …, China) in fall 2008. We first use a discrete-time proportional hazard model to estimate the determinants of migration …

Economic reforms in rural China have brought opportunities to diversify both within-farm activities and off … Northern China. At the household level, we distinguish three types of diversification as opposed to grain production only …

Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past thirty-five years, poverty has not been fully … both the challenges and achievements of pro-poor programs in China. Using original household survey data, we first …

This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …

This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a …