their peers. The present paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic analysis of income inequality and risk … taking. We perform a real effort field experiment where inequality is introduced to different wage rates. After the effort … the dominant impact of inequality on risk taking is what can be termed a social house money effect: high-wage individuals …

importance of luck for success, and how this mediates their meritocratic beliefs and acceptance of inequality. We randomly assign …

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a …

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …

Exports from China have surged substantially since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. We … investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … increase of inequality that is concentrated mostly in the lower part of regional income distributions. We determine a …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income … mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 … the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree …

between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …