types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

also suggest that China's household registration (Hukou) system prevents the mobility of urban residents more than it … groups. These findings explain increases in skill premia in coastal regions after China's entry into the WTO, but it does not … prevents the mobility of rural residents. We propose that Hukou reform should not only abolish the agricultural vs. non …

We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …

In Chinese cities, migrants with rural hukou, compared to residents with local urban hukou, face more uncertainty, have … empirical analysis examines a nationally representative household survey from 2013 and uses mother's hukou status as an … instrumental variable. We find that household heads with rural hukou are about 20 percentage points less likely to own housing …

rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the … advantage of variation in hukou status generated by individual-level changes over time. Unlike previous studies, we are able to … hukou "premium". For estimates that do not account for time-invariant individual characteristics, urban hukou holders earn …

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate - this result is driven by migrants who are "non-hukou …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

estimated impacts of mothers' SWB by up to 40%, but does not change the gender gaps. Our results are robust to different model …