The urban-rural divide in China was an entrenched feature of Chinese society in the Maoist era. This divide generated … and continues to generate inequality as between the rural population and the urban population. In post-Deng China, legal … this paper, it is argued that the emergence of the phenomenon of “quasi-commons” in rural China, crossing the “borders” of …

We examine the impact of China's hukou system, which is an institution controlling population movement, on social and …

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban …, creating a unique exogenous opportunity for children with urban fathers and rural mothers to obtain urban hukou. Using China …

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access … China's 2010 population census data, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the impact of hukou status on …