| How migrant labor is changing rural China R Murphy Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 682 | 2002 |
| Turning Peasants into Modern Chinese Citizens: “Population Quality” Discourse, Demographic Transition and Primary Education R Murphy The China Quarterly, 2004 | 456 | 2004 |
| Effects of parents' migration on the education of children left behind in rural China M Zhou, R Murphy, R Tao Population and Development Review 40 (2), 273-292, 2014 | 227 | 2014 |
| Son preference in rural China: Patrilineal families and socioeconomic change R Murphy, R Tao, X Lu Population and development review 37 (4), 665-690, 2011 | 213 | 2011 |
| Labour migration and social development in contemporary China R Murphy Routledge, 2008 | 178* | 2008 |
| Return migrant entrepreneurs and economic diversification in two counties in south Jiangxi, China R Murphy Journal of International Development: The Journal of the Development Studies …, 1999 | 148 | 1999 |
| Return migration, entrepreneurship and local state corporatism in rural China: the experience of two counties in south Jiangxi R Murphy Journal of contemporary China 9 (24), 231-247, 2000 | 115* | 2000 |
| The political economy of earmarked transfers in a state-designated poor county in western China: central policies and local responses M Liu, J Wang, R Tao, R Murphy The China Quarterly 200, 973-994, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| Chinese citizenship: Views from the margins VL Fong, R Murphy Routledge, 2006 | 102 | 2006 |
| Fertility and distorted sex ratios in a rural Chinese county: Culture, state, and policy R Murphy Population and development review 29 (4), 595-626, 2003 | 94 | 2003 |
| The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course R Murphy On the Move, 243-276, 2004 | 89 | 2004 |
| Study and school in the lives of children in migrant families: A view from rural Jiangxi, China R Murphy Development and Change 45 (1), 29-51, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| Parents' Migration and Children's Subjective Well‐being and Health: Evidence from Rural China R Murphy, M Zhou, R Tao Population, Space and Place 22 (8), 766-780, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| The Children of China's Great Migration R Murphy | 55 | 2020 |
| Education management and performance after rural education finance reform: Evidence from Western China M Liu, R Murphy, R Tao, X An International Journal of Educational Development 29 (5), 463-473, 2009 | 53 | 2009 |
| Education and development in China-Institutions, curriculum and society R Murphy, D Johnson International Journal of Educational Development 29 (5), 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| The paradox of the state-run media promoting poor governance in China: Case studies of a party newspaper and an anticorruption film R Murphy Critical Asian Studies 39 (1), 63-88, 2007 | 37* | 2007 |
| Lineage networks, land conflicts and rural migration in late socialist China L Liangqun, R Murphy The Journal of Peasant Studies 33 (4), 612-645, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| Sex Ratio Imbalances and China's Care for Girls Programme: A Case Study of a Social Problem R Murphy The China Quarterly 219 (September), 781-807, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| Introduction: Chinese experiences of citizenship RA Murphy, VL Fong Chinese citizenship: Views from the margins, 2005 | 25 | 2005 |
