attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

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 …