incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China's urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … is primarily related to the disequalizing role of non-agricultural self-employment income and the slow growth in …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China's urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … is primarily related to the disequalizing role of non-agricultural self-employment income and the slow growth in …

We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China's Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of … comparable estimates of household income and consumption from a panel of over 100 villages from nine Chinese provinces. We …

generally credited with the rapid growth enjoyed by China's rural sector. This growth has not been without some cost however … income. Our objective in this paper is to examine the emerging inter-household income differentials at the village level. In … the distribution of income at this level. We are especially interested in the effect that human capital accumulation and …