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1. 1. The Impact of Trade Openness on the Gender Wage Gap in Urban China, 2002-2013

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Zhuoyi Sun; [2023]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper examines the impact of trade openness on the gender wage gap in urban China after China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Using data from the 2002 and 2013 China Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper uses OLS regression and instrumental variable regression, to analyze the relationship between trade openness and the gender wage gap. READ MORE

3. 2. House price and fertility behavior among different families - Empirical study from CFPS data

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Huichan Chen; [2023]
   Keywords : House Price; Fertility Rate; Gender Effect; Birth Plan Policy; One Child Policy;

   Abstract : This paper uses panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to examine the relationship between housing prices and fertility behavior in China, this paper analyzes sample data from 2014, 2016 and 2018 and uses Probit model and the logit model to study how house price affects fertility behavior among different families, furthermore, after the removal of One Child Policy, how the fertility behavior would react to house price. The study found that rising housing prices have a significant negative impact on fertility behavior, and that this negative impact persists even when using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity. READ MORE

4. 3. Exchanging 'Life' for Money? Overtime work culture and professional women's fertility intentions in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Jinxuan Lu; [2023]
   Keywords : Fertility intention; Overtime work; PLS-SEM; Vignette experiment; Theory of Planned Behavior; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the context of China’s concerning decline in fertility rates and the widespread normalization of the ‘996’ overtime culture, the connection between overtime work and fertility assumes considerable importance. This research is firmly grounded in the theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991), which investigates the complex relationship between overtime work and fertility intentions among working women of reproductive age in urban China. READ MORE

5. 4. In the Competition for Children’s Success : A sociological analysis of eleven urban middle-class families’ educational perceptions and strategies in China

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Zhai Yuxuan; [2023]
   Keywords : Bourdieu; middle class; China; educational strategies;

   Abstract : Although China's educational resources have increased, and access to education has improved, inequality in education has persisted. This suggests that there will always be individuals who fail to get success through education. READ MORE

6. 5. Second Home, New Home

   University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

   Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
   Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

   Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE