Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … associated with economic reforms. The centerpiece of the paper is an empirical analysis based on a set of household surveys … conducted by the China’s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …