“...A national household survey for 2002, containing a specially designed module on subjective well-being, is used to estimate pioneering happiness functions in...”

“...The paper examines the contentious issue of the extent of surplus labour that remains in China. China was an extreme example of a surplus labour economy, but...”

“...This paper investigates the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth in China based on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis,...”

“...China has recently unveiled an ambitious new health-care reform plan, entailing a doubling of government health spending as well as a number of concrete...”

“...Although there is a rich literature on internal temporary migration in China, few existing studies deal with the permanent migration decision of China's rural...”

“...Intuitively, the concept of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is relatively easy to understand: pollution will initially increase with economic development...”

“...Many recent studies claim that China has reached a Lewisian ‘turning point’ in economic development, signalled by rising wages in urban areas and the...”

“...This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a special focus on the relationship between...”

“...Using a large panel dataset covering all manufacturing firms (above a minimum scale) in China from 1998 to 2005, this paper examines whether there exist...”

“...This paper presents and assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China's recent rapid economic growth using a two stage growth accounting approach. Recent...”