Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China’s securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China’s corporate governance will …

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the …