This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

Let X = Xkk [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1 be an i.i.d. random sequence and Y =Ykk [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1 be an independent random sequence which is also independent of X. We suppose X and Y take values in the sequence space , where S is either , the space of non-negative integers, or +,...

The paper studies the convergence of the cluster-variation method to the rigorous result as the cluster size increases. The calculation is done on the phase boundary at T = 0 between the A2B-type ordered phase and the disordered phase on a two-dimensional triangular lattice with nearest-neighbor...

Behaviors of the generalized random walks (GRW) are directly studied by using computer. The GRW have a non-linear term yielding a non-Markovian character. The non-Markovian character represents memory effects in the processes through the jumping probabilities P̃αN(m|m−α1) between sites...

We relate household savings to pension reform, to explain the high household savings rates in urban China from a new perspective. We use the exogenous – policy-induced – variation in pension wealth to estimate explicitly the impact of pension wealth on household savings, and obtain evidence...

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on subjective well-being using data from the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) Survey. We find that people feel unhappy with between-group inequality, as measured by the income gap between migrants without local urban hukou...