research about the issue of China's income distribution and the quantity of economic growth, whereas there are relatively fewer …

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 … substantially reduce China's urban-rural income gap and its contribution to inequality. Nevertheless, the gap remains large and has …

We use a new method to estimate China's income distributions using publicly available interval summary statistics from … China's national household survey. We examine rural, urban, and overall income distributions for each year from 1985 … is close to that of China. We also show that urban consumption inequality (which may be a better indicator of economic …