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

during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

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 …

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …