Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic … development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors collected from urban China … that it may be a consequence of China's education system, which is highly selective and exam oriented. More specifically …

Many children worldwide are left-behind by parents migrating for work — over 61 million in rural China alone, almost … both unobserved individual heterogeneity and endogeneity in parental absence are used with data collected from rural China …