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 …

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective.  In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …

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 …

Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in … estimates consistently reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women`s education … decomposition of the gender wage gap (into the component `explained` by differing male and female endowments and the residual …

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

determinants of subjective well-being.  Less attention has been paid to its normative implications.  Taking China as a case study …

, industries and regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time.  However, based … good explanation for China's overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the sector, overinvestment is …