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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...

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Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...

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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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

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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000

Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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 …

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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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 …

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Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000

Meng, Xin; Gong, Xiaodong; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper examines this issue using large representative sample...

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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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

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