The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach

Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina

doi:10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

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Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Appleton, S., Song, L., & Liu, B. (2021). Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83(3), 619-640. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12410

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.

Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda (2018)
Journal Article
Gaggero, A., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (2018). Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda. Journal- Economic Science Association, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-018-0049-2

In this study we investigate the effect of framing on bribery behaviour. To do this, we replicate Barr and Serra (Exp Econ, 12(4):488–503, (2009) and carry out a simple one-shot bribery game that mimics corruption. In one treatment, we presented the... Read More about Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda.

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.