Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …

countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in China, we estimate the effects of pension …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …