We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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 …

environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family …

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

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 …

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 …

on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. …