in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys — one rural and one urban …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …

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

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …