This paper analyzes the impact of relaxing the One-Child Policy to the Two-Child Policy (TCP) on the employment of couples in China. By exploiting the regional variation in the timing of the policy implementation and the differences in exposure to the policy by subpopulation and by cohorts, we...

The issue of motherhood penalty, i.e., the number of children in a household negatively affects the mother's LFP but has no impact on the father's LFP, has been widely discussed in previous literature. However, most literature mainly discusses the motherhood penalty among nuclear families or...

Economists have devoted a tremendous amount of attention to understanding the role of parents in driving within-family income inequality and the motives behind their decisions. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed, with some papers finding reinforcing parental behavior, others finding...

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

In this paper, we use new survey data on twins born in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Chinesecultural revolution," to identify the distinct roles of altruism and guilt in affecting behavior within families. Based on a...

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...