Given the large value of marriage payments in China, parental support for children's marriage payments is common, which … from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), I first analyze the provision of marriage payments in the …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

The overall goal of this study is to examine if there is a dropout problem in rural China and to explore the … nationally-designated poor county in Northwest China. We find that the annual dropout rate in the study county was 7.8 percent …

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit … constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA …

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income …

Minimum Living Standard Assistance (MLSA) or Dibao in China. Using newly available data on MLSA spending and a unique panel …

-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …

address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no …