The phenomenal economic growth in China has been accompanied by a rapid increase in
income inequality. This paper reviews the historical trends and patterns of income inequality …

Over the past few decades of economic reform, China's labor markets have been
transformed to an increasingly market-driven system. China has two segregated economies …

Researchers have made much progress in the past 25 years in accounting for the proximate
determinants of income levels: physical capital, human capital, and Total Factor Productivity …

In line with the fiscal, structural, and academic shifts in higher education, a growing number
of universities in English‐speaking countries develop and deliver short‐term study‐abroad …

This book investigates the changing opportunities in higher education for different social
groups during China's transition from the socialist regime to a market economy. The first part …

This paper investigates how the reduction of barriers to migration affected the decision of
middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of …

Although there is evidence that there was gender inequality in China's education system in
the 1980s, the literature in China has mixed evidence on improvements in gender inequality …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors
collected from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of …

This paper examines how adult children's expressed filial piety, receipt of help from parents,
socioeconomic resources, and parents' needs are associated with the likelihood of parent …

About 10% of primary school students in developing countries have poor vision, but very few
of them wear glasses. Almost no research examines the impact of poor vision on school …