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102 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13550
Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India
M. Shahe Emran, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Yajing Jiang, Yan Sun
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127
Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang
published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12797
Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times
Sookti Chaudhary, Alison Davis, Kenneth Troske, SuZanne Troske
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12374
Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China
Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in:[Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 601–631
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11930
Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households
Carl Lin, Yan Sun, Chunbing Xing
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 (12), 2077-2094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11347
Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong, Xiang Zhou
updated paper forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11243
Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102412
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11174
Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Mehtabul Azam
substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11058
Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China
Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang, Min Zhang
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 837-876
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11029
Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11022
The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Ernest Boffy-Ramirez, Soojae Moon
published in: China Economic Journal, 2018, 11 (2), 108-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10637
Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636
Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond
Ravi Kanbur
published in: C.Monga, J. Yifu Lin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Structural Tansformation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 96 - 108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10566
Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Paul Glewwe, Qiuqiong Huang, Albert Park
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 141-164
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10424
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10016
Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?
Xi Chen
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9994
Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India
Subhasish Dey, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9974
Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9482
Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
Xi Chen
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 455-476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9360
Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Zeyuan Chen, Tommy Bengtsson, Jonas Helgertz
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