Rising Inequalities in Income and Health in China: Who is left behind?

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During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to health disparities between rich and poor. We find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo)men, but not to the growth rate of average incomes over the last decades. These findings suggest that replacement incomes and pensions at older ages may be one of the most important policy levers in combating health disparities between rich and poor Chinese.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 12-091/V

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: General ; Distribution: General ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Health and Inequality ; Health and Economic Development
• Thema: China ; income growth ; income inequality ; income mobility ; health inequality ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Einkommensverteilung ; Soziale Mobilität ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; China

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Baeten, Steef ; Ourti, Tom Van ; Doorslaer, Eddy Van
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87351
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ