, lost an average of more than 50 percent of potential earnings. Both genders suffered reduced attainment of senior high …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … certificate attained, the impact on earnings of these missed years of schooling or lack of normal curricula was small. …

In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent …. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log … earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent increase. Using a unique set of repeated cross-sectional data this paper …

Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …

biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … education on earnings. Our results show that the rates of return to 4-year university education relative to 3-year college … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 …