investigates the impact of land tenure security on farmers’ labor market outcomes in rural China. To identify the effect of land …

parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in … rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late … 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and variation across birth cohorts, we estimate the returns to …

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from … a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning … of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence of family class status (chengfen) on offspring education. Our …

During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a dramatic, albeit temporary, expansion of secondary education in … variation in the expansion across localities and birth cohorts to estimate the impact of Cultural Revolution education on … education on off-farm employment and wage earnings. The effect on household income is mixed and likely reflects the substitution …

This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring's economic status in post reform rural China by …

construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health … years after its implementation. Effects on education are larger for girls than for boys, and for toilet subsidy programs. On … find evidence that the toilet program had larger education effects if it was introduced after the water program. Exploiting …