offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are … females in rural China. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the …

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … China during economic transition. We find that returns to education are generally more pronounced for individuals in the …

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …

By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 …. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the expansion has exacerbated the large pre-existing urban-rural gap …