In this paper, I test for evidence of an intra-household flypaper effect by evaluating the impact of an educational fee reduction reform in rural China on different categories of household expenditures, including spending on individual children. Using data that pre- and post-dated the reform, I...

Using unique longitudinal survey data that employed the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) to measure experienced utility in rural China, this study reveals striking differences in the trends for life satisfaction and experienced utility. Consistent with previous studies, we find that reported life...