in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …

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

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …