While increasing income inequality in China has been commented on and studied extensively, relatively little analysis … presents some basic facts on the evolution of spatial inequalities in education and healthcare in China in the long run. In the …

We used a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages over three waves in China …

entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with minimal barriers to entry. Using a cashmere sweater cluster in China … accessible for small entrepreneurs widely available in rural China, even without a well functioning capital market. The observed …

entail parochial problems? Making use of primary survey data covering two election cycles in a mountainous area of China …

shown the opposite in the product market. This article argues that as the rent from China’s product market has been squeezed …

China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social …/urban, inland/coastal and provincial—dominates in a country as large as China, and especially with its particular history. The three … regional inequality in China. The object of this volume is to bring together a selection of these papers by us and our co …

-61, and employ a novel data set, the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), to explore the intergenerational legacy of early …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist …