We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China …

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …

the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data …

We use census and household survey data to document China's educational assortative marriage and its evolution between … in China since the early 1990s, which is also true for urban areas and for different provinces. We then calculate the … counterfactual Gini coefficients that would prevail if marriage matching was random in terms of education. For China in 2005, the …

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …

married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …