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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...

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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …

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