Did send-down experience benefit youth? A reevaluation of the social consequences of forced urban-rural migration during China's Cultural Revolution

Social Science Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 686-700

  Xie, Yu ^a   Jiang, Yang ^a   Greenman, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural revolution; Forced Migration; Life course; Methods; Send down; Stratification in China

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FOLLOW UP; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCOME; MIGRATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

ADOLESCENT; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 43049118289     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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