This study investigates the impact of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on the non-health
consumption of elderly households. By exploiting a quasi-experiment on the public LTCI …

Using the data from the China Family Panel Studies from 2010 to 2018, we find that rising
income inequality causes parents to spend more on children's education, both in school and …

We assess the impact of a prominent place-based policy, namely the Resource-Exhausted
City (REC) program, on regional innovation in China from 2003 to 2016. Exploiting the cross …

On 8 April 2020, the Chinese government lifted the lockdown and opened up public
transportation in Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. After 76 days in …

This paper studies the evolution of urban China's gender earnings gap from 1988 to 2016.
We first document that an upward trend in gender inequality started to reverse after 2007 at …

Siblings are important sources of support. Male siblings, in particular, are valuable extended
family resources in patriarchal societies such as China. This paper examines the effects of …

This article provides new evidence on the housing-wealth effect on consumption using
household panel data. A key advantage in studying the Chinese housing market is the …

This paper is the first comprehensive empirical study of earnings, income, and consumption
inequality in urban China from 1986 to 2009, conducted using micro-level data from the …

The rapid aging of China's population has intensified the burden of elderly care on families,
with potential implications for household financial decision-making. While existing research …

We estimate the long-term costs of job displacement for individuals who lost their jobs during
the dramatic reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the late 1990s in China, using data …