Chen and Ravallion use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare … first-order approximations based on a household model incorporating own-production activities and are calibrated to the … household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

Ravallion tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household … level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in …

Chen and Ravallion use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare … first-order approximations based on a household model incorporating own-production activities and are calibrated to the … household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …