This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …-income families, and for the residents in the relatively poor western region. -- urban China ; health insurance ; health care …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. -- migration ; native labour market outcomes ; China …

modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low …

Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … income link between sons and fathers in urban China appears to be not very different from what has been reported for … countries such as Brazil, Chile and the United States. -- intergenerational income mobility ; China …

In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of …

sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social … expenditure ; gender difference ; urban, China …

Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle … ; China …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter …

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …