attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …

households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption …

paper identifies the returns to schooling in urban China using individual-level variation in educational attainment caused … data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large cities in 2001. The results are consistent with the …

Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of … source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their … than their younger brothers. With future continued rapid economic growth in China, the income disadvantage of the elderly …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …

This paper first reviews the history of social insurance policy and coverage in urban China, documenting the evolution … highlighting obstacles to expanding coverage. The paper then uses two waves of the China Urban Labor Survey, conducted in 2005 and …