because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility …

, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is …

This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …

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 …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of …

married women with similar education levels. Controlling for gender identity in particular, an aversion to the wife earning … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of …

have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

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 …