Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in …

biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 …

in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

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 …