This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units … while low household wealth is more important for Dibao-receipt in rural areas. In rural China, membership of the Communist … Party of China (CPC) increases the probability of Dibao receipt. A larger proportion ethnic minority households than …

data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi …

global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …

The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from … the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the … proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment as their primary form of off-farm employment increased from only 2 …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … 1988 and 2018. In the paper, we describe the evolution of the fragmented pension system in urban China using a quantitative … China Household Income Project, focusing on individuals aged 60 years and older. Therefore, this study demonstrates how …