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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070428
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604099
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566831