differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural … sector has “caused” growing wage inequality; and (2b) how residual government control in a few industrial sectors has … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …