Declining maternal fertility desire has been recognized as a key factor in understanding China’s sharp drop in realized fertility. Using results from a nationally representative survey, this paper presents the first causal evidence on the relation between maternal education and fertility...

A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially involuntary school choice, using survey data and...

This paper uses the China Education Tracking Panel Data (CEPS) to analyze the impact of parents' migrant workers on the performance of compulsory education for left-behind children. The study found that migrant workers have a significant negative impact on the performance of left-behind children...

This study investigates the effect of cohort crowding on educational attainment and labor market performance by employing discontinuities in schooling cohort size induced by China’s Compulsory Education Law. Similar to other developing countries, China has education supply constraints even in...