This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a … north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …

Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … striking contradiction is China where, despite a fourfold multiplication in two decades in real GDP per capita from a low …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on diet …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due … to differences in mean income across neighbourhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002 …