Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …

, occupation, and Communist Party membership all play important roles in transmitting economic status from parents to children. …This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred estimates are that the intergenerational income …