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 …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …