Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India
Carlos Gradín,Binbin Wu +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India and find that expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India, but income inequality much lower.About:
This article is published in China Economic Review.The article was published on 2019-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Distribution (economics) & Economic inequality.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal Article
Inequality and Public Policy in China
TL;DR: Gustafsson et al. as discussed by the authors presented the major collective output of the third phase of an initiative to examine changing patterns of inequality in reformera China, which was based on data for 2002.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mobile payment and Chinese rural household consumption
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of mobile payments on household consumption in rural China by using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) to overcome the potential endogeneity, using the instrumental variable (IV) and difference-in-differences (DID) methods and find a significant positive effect of mobile payment on rural household consumption.
Journal ArticleDOI
Spatial Pattern and Driving Mechanism of Urban–Rural Income Gap in Gansu Province of China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted an empirical study on 84 county-level cities in Gansu Province by using various analysis tools, such as GIS, GeoDetector and Boston Consulting Group Matrix.
Journal ArticleDOI
Management of green economy in China and India: dynamics of poverty and policy drivers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of poverty on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for India and China over the sample period 1987-2019 and found that a rise in poverty contributes to growing CO2 emissions in India only in short run.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Influence Curve and Its Role in Robust Estimation
TL;DR: In this article, the first derivative of an estimator viewed as functional and the ways in which it can be used to study local robustness properties are discussed, and a theory of robust estimation "near" strict parametric models is briefly sketched and applied to some classical situations.
Journal ArticleDOI
China's (uneven) progress against poverty
Martin Ravallion,Shaohua Chen +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth, and that rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped.
Journal ArticleDOI
Unconditional Quantile Regressions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new regression method to evaluate the impact of changes in the distribution of the explanatory variables on quantiles of the unconditional (marginal) distribution of an outcome variable.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness
Ravi Kanbur,Xiaobo Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a long-run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present was constructed and analyzed, showing that there have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of late 1960s and 1970s and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s.
Journal ArticleDOI
Decomposing Wage Distributions using Recentered Influence Function Regressions
TL;DR: This article proposed a two-stage procedure to decompose changes or dierences in the distribution of wages (or of other variables) using a reweighting method, which allows to estimate directly these two components of the decomposition without having to estimate a structural wagesetting model.
Related Papers (5)
The relation and development of expenditure inequality and income inequality of Czech households
Zdeňka Malá,Gabriela Červená +1 more