question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …

-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and … cognitive abilities, and especially after the large-scale higher education expansion since 1999, women have outperformed men in … younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 …