distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends … and inequalities decrease, the urban-rural income ratio increases at the same time. On the contrary, the selection effect …As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … consumption disparity. The price effect is the dominant factor for the urban-rural consumption disparity. This disparity increased … this increase was mainly from the higher growth rate of urban household consumption. Our results also suggest that rural-urban …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution …. Our main measure of welfare is spatially adjusted per capita consumption expenditure. We find that the urban-rural gap … 1993-94 across the entire distribution. We find that difference in educational distribution across urban and rural areas is …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … covariates including rainshocks. I cannot reject the null that income shocks have no effect on mortality in urban households, but … I find that rural infant mortality is counter-cyclical, the elasticity being about -0.46. This is despite the …

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health … restricting the sample to rural households, a significant effect of health expenditure on infant mortality emerges, the long run …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …

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 … cohorts in rural China. Structural change in favor of the nonfarm sector contributed to educational inequality in rural India …