: private social networks and membership in the Communist Party. Although party affiliation is linked to higher consumption in … between private social networks, use of informal credit, and household consumption. Instrumental variable regressions indicate … development in China, as it has in countries with higher levels of private sector development …

economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher …

economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher …

Chen and Ravallion use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare … first-order approximations based on a household model incorporating own-production activities and are calibrated to the … household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …. First, household members worked more, especially in the non-tradable sector. Second, more young adults co-resided with their … parents, and thus household size increased. Third, households saved less. These behaviors significantly buffered the negative …