the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

This study evaluates the impact of a randomized control trial (RCT) in China that introduced externally funded village … income and reduces poverty. We explore possible explanations as to why the estimated impacts may be greater in China: lump …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

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 …

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 …

demand for migrant labor. By early 2010, abundant evidence pointed to scarcity in China's labor market, as labor demand was …