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rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …
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Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …
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The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …
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combine to restrict workers’ location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we … regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and …
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Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Inequality in U.S. housing prices and rents both declined in the mid-20th century, even as home-ownership rates rose. Subsequently, housing-price inequality has risen to pre-War levels, while rent inequality has risen less. Combining both measures, we see inequality in housing consumption...
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in growth for developing countries in aggregate. The rapid rise of China may hurt some developing countries in the short …
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The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to high-income places. These changes coincide with a disproportionate increase in housing prices in high-income places, a divergence in the skill-specific returns to moving...
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We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
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