Similar Search Results

Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070428

Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703814

Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763836