Jian Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the earnings of cadre and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated with success as entrepreneurs or in non-agricultural activities and find evidence that households of village cadres earn significant rents from having a family member who is a cadre.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors found that having school-aged children has a negative impact on rural laborers' migration decisions and a positive impact on their decision to work in the local off-farm employment market.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of teachers in explaining the urban-rural gap in educational outcomes and found that if rural teachers were of the same quality as urban teachers, the urban rural gap would be reduced substantially.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined employment-related gender discrimination during the initial stages of a hiring process and found that female applicants are less likely to be invited by hiring firms to on-site interviews as compared with their male counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the role of a teacher performance-based compensation reform in rural China and find that teachers' compensation is not closely tied to teachers' value-add to student academic achievement.