rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth …

This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War …

between health resources and income (taken as a proxy for productivity). In particular we determine the efficient level of the … get the same health care. Quantitatively, we find that the amount of inequality across the income distribution in the data …In this paper we study the efficient allocation of health resources across individuals. We focus on the relation …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …