We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household 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...

Investigation of the rural economic policy of 1978 with particular reference to income distribution among the peasants. Taxes, investment, prices, quotas, production and marketing in agriculture. Year-to-year increases of total peasant income 1978-81. A new array of economic problems created by...