Yu Xie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an extension of the resource-dilution hypothesis, which states that families may sacrifice the educational opportunities of older siblings and use their remittance to compensate the family expenses, particularly when there are younger siblings.

TL;DR: It is found that intergenerational social mobility has been remarkably stable, and in contrast with relative stability in rank-based measures of mobility, absolute mobility for the nonfarm population—the fraction of offspring whose occupational ranks are higher than those of their parents—increased for birth cohorts born prior to 1900 and has fallen for those born after 1940.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality among the oldest old (80 years and older) population in China using data from the 1998, 2000, and 2002 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), and the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) to estimate and compare poverty incidence rates in China.

TL;DR: Data from the Survey of Family Life in Urban China, which was conducted in three large cities in 1999, shows that the send-down experience does not seem to have benefited the affected Chinese youth.