change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … saving rate of the poor due to an increase in income uncertainty contributes significantly to the increase in poverty … measured in terms of expenditure. Even though income growth reduces poverty, the radical reform measures implemented in the …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred estimates are that the intergenerational income …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …