The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China

By D. Benjamin, L. Brandt, J. Giles. Economic development and cultural change, 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China (2012, unknown): “The insignificant coefficient of labor, while consistent with findings from other studies (Benjamin et al. 2005) is surprising in view of recent concerns about emerging labor shortages in China‟s export sector but may be explained by the notion that it is the old who take care of agricultural cultiv”
Access to Markets and Rural Poverty: Evidence from Household Consumption in China (2013, background): “In a number of papers Benjamin et al. (2005, 2008), use Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) household panel data set and show that the importance of geographic location in explaining the rural inequality has declined over time.”
Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape? (2012, unknown): “The RCRE household survey data have been previously used in studies by Duclos, Araar, and Giles (2010), Wan, Lu, and Chen (2006) and Benjamin et al. (2005). Furthermore, the village survey provides information on the respective village’s resource endowment, number of working days of inhabitants and ”
Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, unknown): “Benjamin et al. (2005) analyzed rural income inequality using a Ministry of Agriculture annual survey of 100 villages.”
Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015 (2019, unknown): “, Piketty and Qian (2009); Benjamin, Brandt, and Giles (2005); Benjamin et al. (2008); Chi, Li, and Yu (2011); Chi (2012); Gustafsson, Li, and Sicular (2008); Gustafsson et al. (2008); Khan and Riskin (2008, 2005); Knight, Li, and Wan (2016); Knight (2014); Li, Sato, and Sicular (2013); Xie et al.”
Economic Transformation and its Political Discontents in China: Authoritarianism, Unequal Growth, and the Dilemmas of Political Development (2006, background): “Virtually all estimates have pointed to a major retreat from equality in China during the reform era (see, e.g., Khan & Riskin 2001, Riskin et al. 2001, Benjamin et al. 2005).”
Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural China (2007, background): “Migrant remittances have been shown to help reduce income inequality in countries such as Mexico (eg, Benjamin et al., 2005; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2007).”
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration (2010, background): “discussions of survey protocol, sampling, attrition, and comparisons with other data sources from rural China, can be found in the data appendix of Benjamin et al. (2005) .”
Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China (2008, unknown): “These issues are reviewed extensively in Appendix B of Benjamin et al (2005), but it is worth summarizing some of their findings here.”
Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “Benjamin et al. (2005) provide a detailed description of the survey design and implementation of the NFPS.”
Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate (2004, unknown): “2 Examples include Bourguignon and Morisson (1990), Edwards (1997), Li, Squire and Zou (1998), Barro (2000), Dollar and Kraay (2002, 2004), Lundberg and Squire (2003), and Milanovic (2004).”
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China (2014, background): “…data from rural China, it becomes apparent that there is tremendous heterogeneity across villages in levels of out-migration over the reform period, and that this period was also characterized by sharp increases in inequality within rural areas (Benjamin et al, 2005; Ravallion and Chen, 2007).”
Relaxing rural constraints: a ‘win-win’ policy for poverty and environment in China? (2010, background): “Firstly, the evidence suggests that o¤farm opportunities o¤er the greatest potential for increasing rural household income (Kung and Lee 2001; Benjamin et al. 2005; Knight and Song 2005).”