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Community and Education

"Community Matters in China" in Research in Sociology of Education 15: Social Organization of Childhood in Developing Countries, Editors: Emily Hannum and Bruce Fuller, 2006. (by Jennifer Adams).

Determinants of Education

"Long-term Effects of China's Great Famine in Hong Kong and Mainland China" (by Hongbin Li, Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Junsen Zhang), 2006. (working paper)

"Parental childcare and children's educational attainment: evidence from China" Applied Economics, 2005, 37, (18), 2067-2076 (by Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, Ning Ma, Junsen Zhang).

"The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins" Demography (by Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang and Yi Zhu). (Forthcoming).

Education Access

"Children's Social Welfare in China, 1989-1997: Access to Health Insurance and Education" The China Quarterly. 181(2005): 100-121. (by Jennifer Adams and Emily Hannum).

Education Efficiency

"Efficiency Analysis of Elementary Schools in China" University of California, Davis / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (by Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, and Qiang Li). (working paper—in Chinese)

"Mergers and the Efficiency Performance of Elementary Schools in China" University of California, Davis / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (by Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, and Qiang Li). (working paper)

Education Reform

"How Much Does An Elementary School Merger Cost? Evidence from Rural China" University of California, Davis / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (by Chengfang Liu, Yaojiang Shi, and Fang Chang). (working paper)

"Is Bigger Better? The Impacts of Elementary School Mergers on Students'Academic Performance" University of California, Davis / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (by Chengfang Liu, Scott Rozelle, and Linxiu Zhang). (working paper)

Gender and Education

"Choices, Hopes, and Expectations: Does Gender still Shape Access to Basic Education in Rural, Northwest China?" in Social Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World. Editors: Maureen Lewis & Marlaine Lockheed. (by Jennifer Adams and Emily Hannum ). (Forthcoming)

Labor Markets and Education

"Migration, Money and Mothers: The Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural China" Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University (by Scott Rozelle, Xinxin Chen, Yaojiang Shi and Weiwei Zhao). (working paper)

"Labor Market Emergence and Returns to Education in Rural China" 2005. Review of Agricultural Economics 27(3): 418-424 (by Scott Rozelle, Qiang Li, Linxiu Zhang and Alan deBrauw).

"Employment, Emerging Labor Markets, and the Role of Education in Rural China" China Economic Review. 13 (2002): 313-328 (by Scott Rozelle, Liniux Zhang and Jikun Huang).

Returns to Education

"Returns to Education in Rural China" Chapter 12 in Education and Reform in China. Editors: Emily Hannum and Albert Park. 2007. Routledge: New York, NY (by Scott Rozelle and Alan deBrauw).

"Reconciling the Returns to Rural Education" Review of Development Economics (by Scott Rozelle and Alan deBrauw). (Forthcoming)

"Does Education Pay in Urban China? Estimating Returns to Education Using Twins" Discussion Papers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics (by Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, Ning Ma, Junsen Zhang). (working paper)

Spillover Effects of Education

"Why Does Spousal Education Matter for Earnings?? Assotative Mating or Cross Productivity?" (with Chong Huang, Pak Wai Liu and Junsen Zhang), 2006. (working paper)

"Mother's Education and Child Health: Is There a Nurturing Effect?" Discussion Papers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics (by Hongbin Li and Yuyu Chen ). (working paper)