The role of family background for earnings in rural China

Frontiers of Economics in China

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 465-477

  Eriksson, Tor ^a   Zhang, Yingqiang ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

family background; income inequality; sibling correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886778687     PISSN: 16733444     EISSN: 16733568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3868/s060-001-012-0020-6     Document Type: Article

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