China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …

, lost an average of more than 50 percent of potential earnings. Both genders suffered reduced attainment of senior high …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … certificate attained, the impact on earnings of these missed years of schooling or lack of normal curricula was small …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two parts, we find that both components are important contributors to … the total variance of earnings. We also find that the share of the transitory part has been decreasing from early 1990 to …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … areas, exploit personal political status for economic gain. Much existing research, however, compares the earnings of cadre … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated …

earnings on the choice of field of study. Results indicate that the probability of selecting a specific college field of study … depends significantly on expected earnings in this field relative to other fields. We also find that women put less weight on … earnings than men when choosing a field of study and those students who were employed prior to starting college are more …

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is … the early stage of the age-earnings course higher earnings are therefore found for smokers because young male non …