Contributors

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Public Services Graduate Program, DePaul University and a consultant for the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research investigates labor mobility within and from China, and rural-urban inequality in China. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Kai-ming Cheng

Kai-ming Cheng is Chair Professor of Education and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong. Since 1996, he has also been Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He works on education policy, and has recently concentrated on cultural dimensions of education, as well as workplace changes.

Rachel Connelly

Rachel Connelly is a Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College. She received a PhD in Economics in 1985 from the University of Michigan. Her work on human resources in China has concentrated on issues of education and migration.

Alan de Brauw

Alan de Brauw is a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Williams College. His research has focused primarily on education and the effects of migration on source households in rural China.

Weili Ding

Weili Ding is Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies and Department of Economics, Queen’s University. Her research interests include economics of education and the economy of China. She is currently examining residential segregation in urban China. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pittsburgh.

Yanping Fang

Yanping Fang is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Pedagogies and Practices in the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her areas of interest include teacher induction and mathematics curriculum and pedagogy. She holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Emily Hannum

Emily Hannum is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on education, child welfare, and social inequality, particularly in China. With Albert Park, she co-directs the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a study of family, school and community factors that support children’s education and healthy development in rural Northwest China. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Steven Lehrer

Steven Lehrer is an Assistant Professor at the School of Policy Studies and Department of Economics, Queen’s University. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in health economics, economics of education, and experimental economics. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pittsburgh.

Wen Li

Wen Li is Associate Professor at the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Her research is on rural poverty in China.

Zai Liang

Zai Liang is Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Albany. His major research interests are in internal and international migration, social demography, and Chinese studies. He serves as Chair of the Asia and Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association.

Jing Lin

Jing Lin is Associate Professor of Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work includes The Red Guards’ Path to Violence (1991), Education in Post-Mao China (1993), The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), and Social Transformation and Private Education in China (1999). Lin received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Margaret Maurer-Fazio is Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Economics at Bates College. Her reserch focuses on labor market developments in China. She is currently investigating the economic status of China's ethnic minorities and has recently published articles on gender wage differentials and the integration of China's urban labor markets. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Lynn Paine

Lynn Paine is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Michigan State University. Her interests are in comparative education and the sociology of education, with a focus on the comparative study of teachers, teaching, and teacher education in China, the United States, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Albert Park

Albert Park is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he is affiliated with the Center for Chinese Studies, the Population Studies Center, and the International Policy Center, Ford School of Public Policy. His research focuses on economic development in China. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Gerard Postiglione

Gerard A. Postiglione is Professor of Comparative Sociology of Education and Development at the University of Hong Kong, where he is also Director of the Wah Ching Centre for Research on Education in China. He is co-editor of the journal Chinese Education and Society. His recent book is Education and Social Change in China (M.E. Sharpe, 2006).

Scott Rozelle

Scott Rozelle is the Helen Farnsworth Senior Fellow and Professor at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Rozelle's research focuses almost exclusively on China and he is Chair of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy.

Donald Treiman

Donald Treiman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His areas of research are social stratifiction and social demography. Current projects include research on social stratification in China and internal migration in China, as well as cross-national comparative studies of social stratification and mobility. He holds a Ph. D. from University of Chicago.

Sangui Wang

Sangui Wang is Professor, School of Agricultural Economics, Renmin University. He was formerly Director, Poverty Research Division, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is an expert on rural poverty in China, and has collaborated on numerous international research projects with academics and international organizations.

Junsen Zhang

Junsen Zhang is Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong. His research has focused on the economics of family behavior and family-related macro issues, such as ageing, social security, and economic growth, in China and in other countries. He is an editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and is Vice President of the Hong Kong Economic Association.

Wei Zhao

Wei Zhao is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on economic and organizational sociology and social stratification. His recent publications are in the areas of social stratification and contractual relationships in China's transitional economy.

Yaohui Zhao

Yaohui Zhao is Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic
Research, Peking University. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in
economics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Chicago. Her major research area is labor market issues in
China.

Zhenzhen Zheng

Zhenzhen Zheng is Professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Her research interests include popula