. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …

north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as … among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic … characteristics. We also utilise an objective measure of children’s exposure, namely, the level of cotinine – a metabolite of nicotine …