"Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … coastal urban areas. Using the China Economic, Population, Nutrition and Health Survey data of 1989 and 2004, we show that the …

rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an exogenous transfer to total income to decompose the Gini index. Second …

surveys-one a cross-section survey, the other two panel surveys. All come from China, a country where providers have until … eligibility for health insurance are used as instruments. The results suggest that during the 1990s China's government and labor … the results, it appears that China's new health insurance schemes (private schemes, including coverage of schoolchildren …

. The authors explore these issues in China. In addition to providing new evidence on the general impact of health shocks …

As a country's current development is path dependent, the rise of China and its strategic implications can only be … understood in a historical context. Hence, the key to understanding contemporary China is the understanding of its past. So far … History of Modern China fills this important gap, focusing on modern Chinese economic growth and comprehensively surveying the …