This article compares the systems of maintenance on or after divorce in Russia and China. Admittedly, we think that a recent amendment to the Marriage Law of China 2001 is significant in solving the practical problem of most divorced women who have no home in which to live. However, through this...

This paper studies career concerns in groups where workers can allocate effort between their own tasks and other group members' tasks. We first theoretically investigate how workers allocate effort when they have career concerns. Then, we study their decisions when the labor market can only...

Kim Wheeler and his colleagues discuss how specific project initiatives have been designed and implemented to provide education on HIV/AIDS to Imams in Urumqi city. They argue that these initiatives have built Imams' capacity to provide counselling and pastoral support to individuals affected by...

Using China's 2000 census data, this paper conducts population projection under different fertility scenarios to gauge the likely trends in China's future population change. The range of fertility assumptions captures the uncertainty of current fertility estimates as well as the likely trends...

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