We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …

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 …