This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is … largely determined by their parents’ incomes. Investigating possible causal channels, we find that parental education …

label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market …-oriented reforms, begun in 1978, helped China achieve unprecedented economic growth and at the same time Marxist ideology was gradually …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market …

school certificates and more than 20 per cent prematurely stopped their education process at junior high school level …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … education attainment most of the cohort experienced missed or interrupted schooling. We show, however, that given the education …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …