This paper studies the contribution of schooling to rural income growth during a period of factor market liberalization in China between 1986-1995. The relaxation of controls on labor mobility permitted farm households to reallocate productive inputs from agriculture to nonagricultural...

The structures of production and organization differ across rural and urban sectors. In agriculture, family members engage in joint production and collective decision making, while in industry they participate in wage employment in the labor market. In this paper we present a model that...

The food availability decline and Sen's entitlement are two leading hypotheses for the causation of famine. Previous research based on case studies has given independent support to each of the accounts. This paper analyses the Chinese famine of 1959-61 by jointly considering entitlement...