This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We use a survey … equally strong among rural households in China. This should be seen in the light of the rapid change China has undergone, with … high growth, increased inequality, and the highest urban-rural income ratio in the world. Thus, the rural population, which …

Issues of inequality, distribution and redistribution are commanding progressively more attention in the minds of not … inclined towards redistribution irrespective of whether the inequality was owing to productivity or luck. We conducted our …

economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates … identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against … institutionally imposed social identity on individuals' economic performance, and potentially on inequality. …

economic incentives. We focus on China?s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which categorizes … widening income inequality. …

The paper compares the economic performance of China and India during the period of their ongoing reform policies. It … develops a new measure of development, namely, a development quality index (DQI), to compare performance of China and India …. The results show that national-level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India. Conversely, the …