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Education of migrant children in China's urban public elementary schools: evidence from Shanghai / Chen, Yuanyuan

Chen, Yuanyuan	Journal Article
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The education of migrant children critically determines the level of human capital of China's future labor force. The majority of migrant children in Chinese cities now study in public schools. This paper uses self-collected data in Shanghai in 2010 and 2012 to evaluate the performance of migrant students in public elementary schools. We find that across schools, migrant students with better family background enter into schools with higher quality. Within the same schools, migrant students perform as well as their local counterparts, in both cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions. Our results suggest that there is no evidence of within-school discrimination against migrant students within public schools, and the key to improving their education is access to better schools.

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Sorting ; Public Elementary Schools ; Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills ; Within-School Discrimination

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Sex imbalance, marital matching and intra-household bargaining: evidence from China / Du, Julan; Wang, Yongqin ; Zhang, Yan

Zhang, Yan	Article
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This paper studies the effects of sex imbalance on matching patterns in China's marriage markets. We hypothesize that the economic inequality caused by economic liberalization, together with sex imbalance, will lead to women's hypergamy (marrying up). Employing CGSS data, our empirical findings support the hypothesis. We also establish that sex imbalance enhances the postnuptial bargaining power of the wife vis-à-vis the husband in intra-household resource allocation. The findings are robust to IV estimation and robustness checks.

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Bargaining Power ; Sex Imbalance ; Female Hypergamy ; Sorting

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