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

agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …

relatively large non-agriculture self-employment sector is non-equalising in rural China, but is also narrowing the urban to …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 …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China‘s economic reforms began, it is …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …