Work Patterns Following a Birth in Urban and Rural China: A Longitudinal Study

Entwisle, Barbara; Chen, Feinian

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Work Patterns Following a Birth in Urban and Rural China: A Longitudinal Study

Entwisle, Barbara, Chen, Feinian·2002·European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie

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Although the CHNS data are not a representative sample of China, previous studies using the CHNS data suggest that the characteristics of the households and individuals well reflect national averages.
“Although the CHNS data are not a representative sample of China, previous studies using the CHNS data have suggested that the characteristics of the households and individuals well reflected the national averages (e.g., see Du, Lu, Zhai, & Popkin, 2002;Entwisle & Chen, 2002;Short, Ma, & Yu, 2000).”
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Authors: Entwisle, B., & Chen, F.
Affiliations: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Texas A&M University (US)
Corresponding author: Entwisle, Barbara
ORCID: Entwisle, Barbara
Venue: European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2002-06
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Pages: 99-119
ISSN: 0168-6577 (ISSN-L)
1572-9885
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015507114559
OpenAlex: W1610593709
Cited by: 40
References: 50
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI: 4.35
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Ford Foundation
Fundación Carolina
National Institutes of Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Topics: Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Keywords: wage employment, agricultural fieldwork, work patterns, urban-rural differences, China Health and Nutrition Survey, China

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