during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas … counterparts left behind in rural China. The probability of becoming a permanent migrant is positively related to parental …

returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …