returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms … of spatial coverage and panel dimension for research on labor markets in China. The survey is a collaboration project …

subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we …