One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique …

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is …