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This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence...
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This paper, using nationally representative household surveys, examines the changes in the membership structure of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the 1990s. We concentrate on urban China and investigate how socioeconomic characteristics of the region (city) influence the membership...
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This paper evaluates the redistributive impacts of rural taxation in China, using the CASS CHIP survey 1995-2002. The main findings can be summarized as follows.First, the major policy target of rural taxation reform--reducing the average rate of taxes and levies--was accomplished between 1995...
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Using a large village survey conducted in 2002, this paper examines the relationship between local governance and public goods provision in rural China focusing on village- and county-levels. The main points of this paper are as follows. First, regarding to rural governance at the village level,...
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This paper investigates the impact of community on household income in rural China. The analytical focus is, first, on the significance of physical infrastructure, human capital, and social capital at the community level, and second on the role of public management and public policy at the local...
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, 'born?urban residents, and 'acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...
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In this paper, we use the '2002 Chinese Household Income Project Survey'(CHIPS2002) data to examine how heterogeneous social interactions affect the peer effect in the rural-urban migration decision in China. We find that the peer effect, measured by the village migration ratio, significantly...
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