This study examines the long-term changes in the distribution of rural income in China from the late 1980s until the … China. …

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 …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from … the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the … proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment as their primary form of off-farm employment increased from only 2 …