Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of … education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … educated mothers compensate for these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments lead …

shape opportunities to form and maintain meaningful ties with other women. We track the social networks of 2,170 mothers …

mothers' time, such as breastfeeding, immunizations or consumption of milk or meat. Together, these results are consistent … with the idea that mothers are rewarded for giving birth to boys, leading them to have more leisure and work less …

Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …

from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …