other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely …, industrial sector and province – have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …

regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the …