Shi Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 3913960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shi Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shi |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9070-3655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Impact of age-friendly digital design on health information behavior and outcomes in older adults: Addressing digital health inequities
This study systematically investigates the association of age-friendly design in health websites and applications with older adults’ health information behaviors and health outcomes in the context of digitalization. Given the relatively large sample size and the approximate normal distribution of the data, Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling (CB-SEM) was employed for analysis. The findings confirm a significant positive association betw…
Tasks and gender wage gap: Evidence from China
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Effects of exercise on cognitive function in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Background Exercise is a non-pharmacological strategy for enhancing cognitive function among various populations. The aim of our systematic review was to synthesise evidence of the effects of exercise on cognitive function in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity. Methods A comprehensive search of four databases (Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE was conducted from each database inception through 1 April, 2025. This review inve…
Severe tremors induced by tiletamine e-cigarette and alcohol use: A case report
Polydrug users, particularly those using NMDAR antagonists and gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABA-AR) agonists, may be at increased risk of developing tiletamine dependence, with more severe consequences due to cross-addiction. The combination of alcohol and tiletamine could exacerbate neuroexcitotoxicity during withdrawal, potentially contributing to severe tremors. The successful management of tremors with a combination of neuroinhib…
The widening gender wage gap in the gig economy in China: The impact of digitalisation
The gig economy, fundamentally relying on the digital economy, is often celebrated for its potential to expand employment opportunities and close gender wage gaps. However, research on its gender impacts in China, the largest developing country with a rapidly expanding gig sector, is notably lacking. Employing discrimination theory, the findings challenge the prevailing optimistic view on the role of the gig economy. Utilising the China Labour Dy…
A retrospective analysis of the influencing factors of nucleic acid CT value fluctuation in Covid-19 patients infected with Omicron variant virus in Changchun city
Objective This study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with fluctuations in nucleic acid CT values in patients infected with the Omicron variant during an outbreak at a hospital in Changchun city. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on general information, medical history, vaccination history, and laboratory test data of COVID-19 patients infected with the Omicron variant and admitted to the hospital in Changchun from Marc…
Psychological Well-being and Health Behavior Patterns among Chinese University Students with Autoimmune Disorders
Background: The prevalence of autoimmune disorders is found to be rapidly increasing in China, especially among university students, though there is a huge lack of awareness about such disorders. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychological wellbeing and health behavior patterns among Chinese university students with autoimmune disorders. Method: To determine the level of depression and anxiety among the associated participants, t…
Between State and Society: The Transformation of China’s Photography in the 1980s
Household income mobility and adolescent subjective well-being in China: Analyzing the mechanisms of influence
Analysis of spatial and temporal characteristics of carbon emission efficiency of pig farming and the influencing factors in China
Pig farming has been a crucial contribution to China's food security although intestinal fermentation and its excrement during pig breeding are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we measured the carbon emission efficiency of pig farming in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) from 2010 to 2020 by using the non-expected output Slack-Based Measure (SBM) model and analyzed the spatial characteristics of the car…
Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China
Exchange rates and foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese firm‐level data
This study investigates the effect of the exchange rate on foreign direct investment (FDI). The exchange rate effect manifests itself theoretically but remains ambiguous empirically. In the literature, (a) FDI is treated predominantly as a continuous variable, while the discrete nature of FDI decisions is neglected; (b) FDI data are in aggregated form, masking the true firm‐level exchange‐rate–FDI relationship; and (c) regression models adopted a…
The Belt and Road Initiative, Public Health Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Quasi-Natural Experiments
The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) involve society, economy, and environment, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an important path to implement the SDGs. Moreover, the BRI is a vision for economic development of countries along the route. Although many studies documented the effect of the BRI on environment and economic performance, few studies have discussed the effect of the BRI on social and economic benefits. …
Eliminating poverty through development: The dynamic evolution of multidimensional poverty in rural China
This paper measures intertemporal multidimensional poverty in rural China from 1988 to 2018 based on the China Household Income Project (CHIP) data and for that time period has the following findings. First, multidimensional poverty in rural China declines steadily when measured through the income poverty approach. Second, multidimensional poverty in rural areas presents demographic and regional heterogeneity, among which elderly poverty, child p…
How Prepared Are the Health Care Professionals for Disaster Medicine Management? An Insight from Pakistan
Countries need healthcare professionals who are competent first responders with a positive attitude and prepared to deal with catastrophes. The study evaluated the knowledge, attitude, and readiness of the practice of healthcare professionals towards disaster management. A survey was carried out among hospital healthcare professionals using a self-administered validated questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised knowledge, attitude, and readiness…
The Relevance of Gender in the Care of Elders: Assumptions and Realities
An examination of the common belief that gender determines a closer emotional bond between adult daughters and elderly parents than adult sons results in five paradoxes. By employing sociological and psychological theories, this paper looks at discriminatory socialisation that sets sons and daughters apart in childhood and argues that the performance of daily routine chores, rather than gender, lies at the core of how intergenerational bonds are …
Western Interactions and Influences: Chinese photographers seeking out changes, 1978–88
Based on archival research and interviews, this study examines the history of Chinese photography's interaction and engagement with the West between 1978 and 1988, and argues that these transnational encounters provided inspiration to Chinese photographers in their resistance to isolation and propaganda, two legacies from the Mao era. If in the artistic realm, the media's intensive introduction of Western works diversified the genres and styles o…
Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy
In this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition story, in which changes in income distribution result from the shift from plan to mark…
Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality
With the data on the top incomes collected from different sources, we combine the samples of the top incomes with a household survey to investigate changes in the income distribution with and without the top incomes. The Gini coefficient of income inequality using household survey data is 0.464 for 2016, and it jumps to 0.646 after including the samples of the top incomes, which demonstrates the great importance of the top incomes in estimating i…
International financial crisis and wage inequality in urban China
The shock of the 2007/2008 international financial crisis had a negative impact on the Chinese economy at its early stage, but the immediate reaction of the Chinese government with a stimulus package of 4 trillion yuan has recovered this economy soon. Since the crisis and the governmental stimulus package have generated different impacts on unemployment and wage growth across regions and industries, it will lead to some changes in the pattern of …
Social insurance for migrant workers in China: Impact of the 2008 Labour Contract Law
Using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 2007, 2008, and 2009 longitudinal migrant survey data, this article provides new evidence on the effects of China’s 2008 Labour Contract Law (LCL) on migrant workers’ social insurance participation, including in pensions, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, and the housing provident fund. We find consistently strong evidence that migrant workers’ labour contract status …
The Divided Chinese Welfare System: Do Health and Education Change the Picture
Using the China Household Income Project 2007 data and imputing health and education benefits through microsimulation, this article provides evidence on how the inclusion of health and education benefits might change the estimated size, structure and redistributive effects of the Chinese social welfare system. We find that the inequalities in social welfare systems across the urban–rural–migrant populations persisted, reinforcing the multidimensi…
Income Inequality and Economic Growth in China in the Last Three Decades
This article discusses the close relationship between high growth and rising inequality in China over a period of three decades since the 1980s. By tracing three key components of income inequality over time, i.e. rural, urban and the rural–urban issues, the study presents an overview of the changes that have occurred in processes of inequality in this country. This study also constructs a relationship between income inequality and growth using a…
Chinese Parents' Role Modeling: Promoting Gratitude
While formal education takes place in schools, informal education—specifically education in cultural and societal spheres—is largely the domain of families. Character education, which is an element of both formal and informal education, teaches children the morals, values, and attributes of their cultures. It can take many forms, depending on the cultural context. Some cultures value independence and self-determination, while other cultures place…
The Ethnic Minority-Majority Income Gap in Rural China during Transition
Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
Income inequality within and across counties in rural China 1988 and 1995
The Chinese Welfare State in Transition: 1988-2007
Is China a welfare state? If so, how big is it and what does it look like? Further, how does the Chinese welfare state affect income inequality? Is it progressive or regressive? Using the China Household Income Project 1988-2007 data, this article provides updated empirical evidence on the size, structure and redistributive effect of the Chinese welfare state. We find that the Chinese welfare state is highly divided along urban-rural lines: the u…
Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition…
Does Welfare Enable Family Expenditures on Human Capital? Evidence from China
Evolution of wealth inequality in China
Household wealth is a key indicator that reflects national economic competiveness and individual income levels. The distribution of wealth is central for evaluating social justice in a country. This article uses a data set composed of the 2002 China Household Income Project and the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Survey to analyze the level of wealth and wealth inequality in China during 2002 and 2010. The analysis decomposes the evolution of wealth in…
The Great Migration: Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia
This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respective societies from primarily rural to urban based
An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Based on 2006 urban survey data of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the region's income determination mechanism. Using the decomposition methods of Blinder and Oaxaca, Fields, and Morduch and Sicular, we analyze income gaps between employed Hui and Han as well as income inequality within the two groups. The main conclusions are that there is almost no income gap between Han and Hui in N…
Mass communication research on China from 2000 to 2010: A Meta-Analysis
This study presents a meta-analysis of mass communication research on China from 2000 to 2010. It reveals patterns in authorship, methodological and theoretical approaches, medium, and area of focus, through a content analysis of 159 articles published in 20 major communication journals. Eight frameworks frequently used by communication scholars to study China are identified in a follow-up analytical review. The paper concludes with discussion on…
Eliminating poverty through development: The dynamic evolution of multidimensional poverty in rural China
This paper measures intertemporal multidimensional poverty in rural China from 1988 to 2018 based on the China Household Income Project (CHIP) data and for that time period has the following findings. First, multidimensional poverty in rural China declines steadily when measured through the income poverty approach. Second, multidimensional poverty in rural areas presents demographic and regional heterogeneity, among which elderly poverty, child p…
Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Social insurance for migrant workers in China: Impact of the 2008 Labour Contract Law
Using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 2007, 2008, and 2009 longitudinal migrant survey data, this article provides new evidence on the effects of China’s 2008 Labour Contract Law (LCL) on migrant workers’ social insurance participation, including in pensions, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, and the housing provident fund. We find consistently strong evidence that migrant workers’ labour contract status …
The Lasting Impact of Parental Early Life Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
The Relevance of Gender in the Care of Elders: Assumptions and Realities
An examination of the common belief that gender determines a closer emotional bond between adult daughters and elderly parents than adult sons results in five paradoxes. By employing sociological and psychological theories, this paper looks at discriminatory socialisation that sets sons and daughters apart in childhood and argues that the performance of daily routine chores, rather than gender, lies at the core of how intergenerational bonds are …
The Divided Chinese Welfare System: Do Health and Education Change the Picture
Using the China Household Income Project 2007 data and imputing health and education benefits through microsimulation, this article provides evidence on how the inclusion of health and education benefits might change the estimated size, structure and redistributive effects of the Chinese social welfare system. We find that the inequalities in social welfare systems across the urban–rural–migrant populations persisted, reinforcing the multidimensi…
Income Inequality and Economic Growth in China in the Last Three Decades
This article discusses the close relationship between high growth and rising inequality in China over a period of three decades since the 1980s. By tracing three key components of income inequality over time, i.e. rural, urban and the rural–urban issues, the study presents an overview of the changes that have occurred in processes of inequality in this country. This study also constructs a relationship between income inequality and growth using a…
All Good is of Parents’ and its Chinese Context
Without doubt, parental love is one of the world’s greatest emotions, regarded as the premise of the filial piety (Xiao in Chinese pinyin) of Chinese people. However, to enhance filial duties, the notion of ‘all good is of parents’ in the official campaigns of China is worth further investigation. This article seeks to verify the hypothesis ‘all good is of parents’ by examining conflicts between the hypothesis and reality, first through classic d…
How to Make a Grateful Child? Reflection on Gratitude Campaigns in China in Recent Years
Only-child generations in China are widely perceived as self-centered and lacking a grateful heart. Edward Gibbon says that gratitude may sometimes be costly. This article argues that family responsibility education with a focus on a sense of justice is a key solution for this social problem. The article examines the correlation between justice, responsibility, and gratitude by looking into the existing conceptual works on these aspects
How large is income inequality in China: Assessment on different estimates of Gini coefficient
The rising income inequality in China has attracted social attentions, especially since SWUFE published the unbelievably high Gini coefficient in December 2012. In order to answer the question how large income inequality in current China is, this paper compares existing different Gini coefficients estimated from four different household surveys, which are the NBS household survey, the CHIP survey, the CHFS of SWUFE, and the CFPS of Peking Univers…
Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China
Income inequality within and across counties in rural China 1988 and 1995
The Ethnic Minority-Majority Income Gap in Rural China during Transition
Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China
Introduction Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato Part I. Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty Chapter 2. Labor Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia Chapter 3. Unemployment, Poverty and Income Disparity in Urban China Jinjun Xue and Wei Zhong Chapter 4. Economic Restructuring and Income Inequality in Urban China Xin Meng Chapter 5. Unemployment, Consumption Smoothing, and Precautionary Sav…
The Urban–rural Income Gap and Inequality in China
Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban–rural income gap, the gap's contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a fuller measure of income, adjusting for spatial price differences and including migrants. Our methods include inequality decomposition by population subgroup and the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition. Se…
Chinese Household Income Project, 2002: Version 1
The purpose of this project was to measure and estimate the distribution of personal income and related economic factors in both rural and urban areas of the People's Republic of China. The principal investigators based their definition of income on cash payments and on a broad range of additional components. Data were collected through a series of questionnaire-based interviews conducted in rural and urban areas at the end of 2002. There are ten…
Chinese Household Income Project, 2002: Archival Version
The purpose of this project was to measure and estimate the distribution of personal income and related economic factors in both rural and urban areas of the People's Republic of China. The principal investigators based their definition of income on cash payments and on a broad range of additional components. Data were collected through a series of questionnaire-based interviews conducted in rural and urban areas at the end of 2002. There are ten…
Land Rights and Rural-Urban Migration in China
Collective ownership of agricultural land and the remains of the administrative management of rural economy have imposed considerable insecurity on the land use rights of Chinese farmers. This insecurity constrains the movement of rural people, who fear that migration will jeopardise what land use rights they do enjoy. In this paper we describe the idiosyncratic uncertainty of land use rights, and verify its influence on migration decisions, with…
Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition…
Reestimating the Income Gap between Urban and Rural House holds in China
How Large Is China’s Rural- Urban Income Gap?
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China
Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given the draconian family planning policy and a common perception that there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based…
The Great Migration: Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia
This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respective societies from primarily rural to urban based
Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China
Labor contracts and social insurance participation among migrant workers in China
Mass communication research on China from 2000 to 2010: A Meta-Analysis
This study presents a meta-analysis of mass communication research on China from 2000 to 2010. It reveals patterns in authorship, methodological and theoretical approaches, medium, and area of focus, through a content analysis of 159 articles published in 20 major communication journals. Eight frameworks frequently used by communication scholars to study China are identified in a follow-up analytical review. The paper concludes with discussion on…
How large is income inequality in China: Assessment on different estimates of Gini coefficient
The rising income inequality in China has attracted social attentions, especially since SWUFE published the unbelievably high Gini coefficient in December 2012. In order to answer the question how large income inequality in current China is, this paper compares existing different Gini coefficients estimated from four different household surveys, which are the NBS household survey, the CHIP survey, the CHFS of SWUFE, and the CFPS of Peking Univers…
Introduction to the special issue on children and families, assistance and welfare: Social work in China and Sweden
This includes authors as well as the anonymous referees. We thank all who contributed to the success of the workshop at the Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai in November 2012. Special thanks are addressed to Ronny Tikkanen for efficient coordination of the event which was funded by a grant from the Swedish Council for Work Life and Social Research (FAS). We also thank Ellen Cheung, Editorial Assistant at the China Journal of Social Work, …
The Lasting Impact of Parental Early Life Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Based on 2006 urban survey data of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the region's income determination mechanism. Using the decomposition methods of Blinder and Oaxaca, Fields, and Morduch and Sicular, we analyze income gaps between employed Hui and Han as well as income inequality within the two groups. The main conclusions are that there is almost no income gap between Han and Hui in N…
The Chinese Welfare State in Transition: 1988-2007
Is China a welfare state? If so, how big is it and what does it look like? Further, how does the Chinese welfare state affect income inequality? Is it progressive or regressive? Using the China Household Income Project 1988-2007 data, this article provides updated empirical evidence on the size, structure and redistributive effect of the Chinese welfare state. We find that the Chinese welfare state is highly divided along urban-rural lines: the u…
The Distribution of Household Income in China: Inequality, Poverty and Policies
This article examines recent trends in inequality and poverty and the effects of distributional policies in China. After a discussion of data and measurement issues, we present evidence on national, as well as rural and urban, inequality and poverty. We critically examine a selection of policies pursued during the Hu–Wen decade that had explicit distributional objectives: the individual income tax, the elimination of agricultural taxes and fees, …
China (43 works) · Economics (39 works) · Geography (31 works) · Demographic economics (30 works) · Political science (25 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (24 works) · Economic growth (22 works) · Labour economics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Inequality (14 works)