The large-scale reform of the state-owned sector and the development of a private sector in the 1990s changed the … nature of employment in urban China. The system of allocated, lifelong jobs (the iron rice bowl) that had previously … in China appears not to have been researched, no doubt because there was so little until recently. Using an urban …

urban China in early 2000. We find that there are gender differences in the stock of social capital and returns within the …, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that dramatically changed the state of employment in urban China. One factor in … reflect and cause gender differences. Our original measures of social capital are created with a data set administered in …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …

economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and …

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … land tenure formalization.  During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective.  In terms of gender inequality …

community data to futher our understanding of time use, and how infrastructure impacts on gender disaggregated time poverty …. Using nationally representative from Lesotho we are able to provide unique insights into gender related, formal and informal …