Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban-rural income gap, the gap's contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a fuller measure of income, adjusting for...

This paper examines the relevance of rational choice to the Chinese Communist revolution. Drawing on the extensive China literature, it outlines the context for and gives a chronological overview of the Chinese revolution. The rational choice approach is applicable in many but not all regards....

We examine inequality decompositions by income source and describe a general, regression-based approach for decomposing inequality. The approach provides an efficient and flexible way to quantify the roles of variables like education and age in a multivariate context. We illustrate the method...

Nonagricultural income has become an important source of rural household income in China and has brought about wide inequality in rural areas. This paper investigates the determinants of nonagricultural employment and income and how they contribute to income inequality using the China Household...