China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor – a large number of surplus men in the marriage …

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

of family background on children?s education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis … uses data from rural China that cover three generations, and are not subject to coresident sample selection. Evidence from … across farm-nonfarm occupations. Having nonfarm parents, in general, has positive effects, but children of low educated non …

children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in …-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers suggests that the elderly with migrant children will … receive similar levels of financial transfers as those without migrant children, the predicted variance associated with these …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so.When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …

in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural … Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have …

develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey … data from rural China that cover three generations and are not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence from recently …

children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in …-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers suggests that the elderly with migrant children will … receive similar levels of financial transfers as those without migrant children, the predicted variance associated with these …