returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively … the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household … skilled workers, consistent with trade theory, the magnitude of the effect was modest and more than offset by institutional …