In recent years, China has instituted a variety of reforms to its hukou system, an institution
with the power to restrict population mobility and access to state-sponsored benefits for the …

This article, sets out a series of principles for pension design rooted in economic theory:
pension systems have multiple objectives, analysis should consider the pension system as a …

Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of
the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program--Minimum …

Policy-oriented discussions often assume that “better targeting” implies larger impacts on
poverty or more cost-effective interventions for fighting poverty. The literature on the …

In the broader social science literature, most studies of social protection investigate welfare
in democracies, and at the national level, and typically assume that welfare is given in order …

Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to
fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao
program aims to fill all poverty gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100 …

Food price increases and the introduction of radical social welfare and enterprise reforms
during the 1990s generated significant changes in the lives of urban households in China …

In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal
antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the …

While economic reforms and structural changes in the Chinese economy have yielded high
rates of economic growth, some subgroups have been adversely affected or unable to …