This paper surveys the literature on regional inequality in contemporary China. It reviews the
trend of convergence or divergence of real GDP or income across different regions in China …

There is no doubt that major regional disparities exist within China. The gap between its
eastern coastal regions compared with the central and western regions has only grown …

This paper discusses human capital investment in China. China's current policies favor
physical capital investment over schooling and urban human capital investment over rural …

In this paper, we examine the determinants of urban wages in China from 1988 to 2002. We
find increased returns to education but a decrease in the returns to experience. The 2002 …

内容提要: 本文使用具有全国代表性的抽样调查数据, 对农村社区公共物品投资的决定因素进行
了初步的分析. 本文通过理论分析提出了两个理论假说, 进而提出在我国公共投资中要注意的 …

This paper uses 1988 and 1995 data from a national household survey to study across-
region dispersions and changes over time in returns to education for a large number of …

Using retrospective data covering the period from 1950 to 1994, we find that schooling
returns declined prior to the Cultural Revolution (CR) and returns for non-college graduates …

内容提要: 本文使用1988 年, 1995 年, 2002 年, 2007 年CHIP 城镇入户调查数据考察国有单位
工资结构及其就业规模变化的收入分配效应. 为此, 本文采用了分位数回归方法 …

In the past fifty years, the experience of the Chinese economy has continually challenged
the assumptions of laissez-faire economics. It has sustained a strong growth rate, changed …

Empirical models are developed in this paper to quantitatively analyze households'
participation in decisions on hiring labor and supplying labor off the farm, hired labor …