economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …, occupation, and Communist Party membership all play important roles in transmitting economic status from parents to children …

We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence …

-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …

with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total … household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …

We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …. First, household members worked more, especially in the non-tradable sector. Second, more young adults co-resided with their … parents, and thus household size increased. Third, households saved less. These behaviors significantly buffered the negative …