This paper utilizes the county-by-county rollout of China's New Rural Pension Scheme
(NRPS) and finds that, among age-eligible people, the pension scheme leads to higher …

This article analyzes China's pension arrangement and notes that China has recently
established a universal non-contributory pension plan covering urban non-employed …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and
investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch …

This research focuses on innovation and its diffusion in public services in authoritarian
China. A mechanism between vertical government intervention and diffusion of innovation in …

This article discusses whether Mainland China under the Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao
leadership (2003–13) has developed a new welfare settlement, the emphasis of which is to …

Many scholars argue that the persistence of son preference in China is driven by greater
anticipated old‐age support from sons than from daughters and the absence of formal …

Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting
distributive issues within growing economies. While gross domestic product (GDP), income …

China is currently in the process of developing the largest pension system in the world, and
it is doing this at a time of unparalleled economic and demographic transition. The central …

Although regional policy experimentation has become a global trend, the distinct features of
experimentalist governance in a given country, such as China, remains to be investigated …

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid
industrialization and urbanization. Along with an increasing number of rural people …