Using data from a rural household survey for the People's Republic of China in 2009, we examine the impact of parental migration on children's educational outcomes. Consistent with the findings of a large empirical literature, we find that parental migration has a significantly negative impact...

Following Rauch's (1993) seminal study, there has been a growing interest among economists in estimating human capital externalities at the individual level. In this paper, we provide a first set of estimates of the external returns to education in Chinese cities. We find that the external...

This paper analyzes the roles of human capital and political capital in income determination, and the determinants of investment in these two types of capital in China. Political capital is treated as a distinct form of capital, which is accumulated through investment and commands a return. The...