All Outputs (6)

Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China (2021)
Journal Article

This paper examines whether childcare choice affects the early childhood development of children aged 7-59 months. Using the data from Chinese Family Panel Surveys, we look at household choices between parental and grandparental cares and the timing... Read More about Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China.

Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China (2021)
Journal Article

This paper examines whether childcare choice affects the early childhood development of children aged 7-59 months. Using the data from Chinese Family Panel Surveys, we look at household choices between parental and grandparental cares and the timing... Read More about Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China.

The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach (2017)
Journal Article
Long, W., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (in press). The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates w... Read More about The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach.

Urban wages in China (2014)
Book Chapter
Lina, S. (2014). Urban wages in China. In S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, & X. Zhang (Eds.), Oxford companion to the economics of China. Oxford University Press

Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis (2014)
Journal Article

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China from 1988 to 2008 by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality largely due to changes in the wage... Read More about Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis.

The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007 (2014)
Journal Article
Xia, Q., Song, L., Li, S., & Appleton, S. (2014). The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2013.875282

This paper examines the effect of the public sector and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on wage inequality in urban China using China Household Income Project data. It applies quantile regression analysis, the Machado and Mata decomposition to investi... Read More about The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007.