paper uses the exposure of 16-year-old cohorts to an exogenous elimination of export quotas to explore the short …-run schooling consequence of destination-specific export expansions and the longer-run effects on adult outcomes. We find that … export expansions to rich-country markets resulted in substantially higher high school enrollment rates. The expansions …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …

. We next consider the ability of village-level elections in rural China to reduce rent seeking, and the extent to which …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … document significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality …