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 …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

. 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 …

not work, and if the household head is not healthy. Means testing of household income is more stringent in urban areas …

by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the existence of potential additional children. We employ two empirical strategies that … same-sex sibling increases men's earnings and family formation outcomes (marriage and number of children), as compared to …

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …