We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

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 …

China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to … paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …

Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are …

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an …