Income inequality in today's China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6928-6933

  Xie, Yu ^a,b   Zhou, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; COST OF LIVING; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNICITY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FAMILY SIZE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INCOME; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84900466486     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403158111     Document Type: Article

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