neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …

Studies have shown that the previously growing inequality in China has stabilized and even declined since 2008 (Kanbur … address this research gap by examining the changes in the distribution of household disposable income and its drivers in China …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …