Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and … those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …

This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to … suggests that the current policy is both inefficient and not large enough to effectively undo the inequality of initial … effects characterize alternative wage schedules and quantify the cost of reducing structural inequality in the allocation of …