culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during …-term economic growth through other channels, such as through transformed social values. If so, then a significant amount of China …

, China has witnessed a decrease in both fertility and female labor force participation since the 1980s. Does fertility play a … different role in female labor force participation in China than in the U.S.? To answer this question, this paper exploits … plausibly exogenous variations in fertility created by the afffirmative One-Child Policy in China to estimate the effect of …

not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to China’s economy, there is an … increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food security …. This is a critical issue as maintaining self-sufficiency in grain production will be critical for China to feed its huge …

culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during …-term economic growth through other channels, such as through transformed social values. If so, then a significant amount of China …

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …