THE URBAN–RURAL INCOME GAP AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA

By T. Sicular, Ximing Yue, B. Gustafsson, Li Shi. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis (2020, background): “China’s URIG is large by international standards and has increased over time (Sicular et al., 2007; Chen and Lin, 2014; Wang et al., 2019a).”
• Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China (2018, positive): “We used the classicMincerian equation to calculate the opportunity cost of being a farmer (21, 23) as follows: lnw = lnw0 + ρ · s+ θ1 ·Expe+ θ2 ·Expe(2) + δ1 · age+ δ2 ·age(2) + δ3 ·urban+ e,”
• Has Digital Financial Inclusion Narrowed the Urban-Rural Income Gap: The Role of Entrepreneurship in China (2021, background): “China has become one of the countries with the largest income gap between urban and rural areas in the world [9], and how to reduce the income gap between urban and rural areas has become an important problem facing China.”
• Income inequality in today’s China (2014, result): “These results confirm a conclusion drawn in past studies that a large portion of China’s income inequality is attributable to structural forces such as the urban-rural divide and regional variation, both of which have been maintained by political structures in large part to promote economic growth (”
• Poverty, inequality, and social disparities during China's economic reform (2007, background): “First, the gap in per capita income between rural and urban areas widened during the reform period, reaching a ratio of three to one (Sicular et al., 2007).”
• The Distribution of Household Income in China: Inequality, Poverty and Policies* (2014, background): “…ballpark as that of relatively high-inequality Latin American countries such as Mexico and El Salvador (both 0.47), although lower than Brazil and Colombia (0.55 and 0.57, respectively).22 21 Benjamin, Brandt and Giles 2005; Sicular et al. 2007; Li, Sato and Sicular 2013; Ravallion and Chen 2007.”
• The Psychometric Evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Using a Nationally Representative Sample of China (2011, background): “It is also true that urban households have higher incomes (Kanbur and Zhang 2005; Sicular et al. 2007).”