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

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …

structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … gender wage-productivity differentials, and more exposure through increased foreign investment leads to differentials in … favor of female workers. On the other hand, gender discrimination is found to be prevalent among domestically owned and non …

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca …

household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We … have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …

in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment … by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …

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

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …