Market development in China : spillovers, growth and inequality / edited by Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shunfeng Song.

Selected papers originally presented at the conference of the Chinese Economists Society, held 31 July to 1 August 2004 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Measuring the poverty lines for urban households in China : an equivalence scale method / Zhihong Chen -- Geography and educational inequality in China / Emily Hannum and Meiyan Wang -- Spatial inequality in education and health care in China / Xiaobo Zhang and Ravi Kanbur -- From a welfare to a mixed-plural education system : Chinese welfare, education and investment in human capital / Gongcheng Zheng -- Political economy of labor retrenchment : evidence based on China's state-owned enterprises / Yifan Hu, Sonja Opper and Sonia M. L. Wong -- Emergence of agricultural commodity markets in China / Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle -- Economic transition and demand pattern : evidence from China's paper and paperboard industry / Haizheng Li, Jifeng Luo and Patrick McCarthy -- Export composition and technology spillovers in China : an empirical study based on the extended feder model / Helian Xu, Qun Bao and Mingyong Lai -- Technology spillovers, absorptive capacity and economic growth / Mingyong Lai, Shuijun Peng and Qun Bao -- Productivity spillovers from FDI : detrimental or beneficial? A study of Chinese manufacturing / Sarah Y. Tong and Youxin Hu -- Rural-urban migration and wage determination : the case of Tianjin, China / Zhigang Lu and Shunfeng Song -- Role of home-market effects on China's domestic production / Fan Zhang and Zuohong Pan.