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

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 …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …

We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China’s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …

The difference in educational attainment between China's urban- and rural-born populations has widened in recent years …

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 …

paper identifies the returns to schooling in urban China using individual-level variation in educational attainment caused … data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large cities in 2001. The results are consistent with the …

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 …