Using the last three waves of the rural household surveys conducted by the Chinese Household Income Project in 2007,2013,and 2018,this paper focuses on changes in poverty in rural China.The paper decomposes poverty ch...Using the last three waves of the rural household surveys conducted by the Chinese Household Income Project in 2007,2013,and 2018,this paper focuses on changes in poverty in rural China.The paper decomposes poverty change into the growth effect and the inequality effect,and also decomposes the contributions of income components,concentrating particularly on income from public transfers.Economic growth had a very significant poverty reduction effect for both absolute and relative poverty,but the inequality effect mostly offset it;in total,absolute poverty reduced significantly,and relative poverty increased from 2007 to 2018.Local wage income became the main contributor to both absolute and relative poverty reduction,replacing household agricultural operational income,and the contribution of wage income from migration declined.Public transfers effectively reduced absolute poverty but not relative poverty.展开更多
Using household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project(CHIP)in 2002 and 2013,changes in happiness are examined within rural,urban and migrant populations.During the survey period,happiness increased f...Using household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project(CHIP)in 2002 and 2013,changes in happiness are examined within rural,urban and migrant populations.During the survey period,happiness increased for urban and migrant groups but decreased for the rural population,accompanying dramatic income growth for all.Personal income positively and significantly affected happiness,but the effects of comparison income were different among the three groups.The income-happiness correlations declined from 2002 to 2013.Declining happiness in rural China can be primarily explained by weakened income-happiness relations and worsening health conditions.The happiness growth in urban areas mainly resulted from income growth,although the personal income effect on happiness was partly offset by the comparison income effect.The increasing happiness in migrants was mainly derived from income growth.展开更多
基金supported by the"Thematic Research Project on China's Income Distribution"(No.21XNLG03)of Renmin University of China.
文摘Using the last three waves of the rural household surveys conducted by the Chinese Household Income Project in 2007,2013,and 2018,this paper focuses on changes in poverty in rural China.The paper decomposes poverty change into the growth effect and the inequality effect,and also decomposes the contributions of income components,concentrating particularly on income from public transfers.Economic growth had a very significant poverty reduction effect for both absolute and relative poverty,but the inequality effect mostly offset it;in total,absolute poverty reduced significantly,and relative poverty increased from 2007 to 2018.Local wage income became the main contributor to both absolute and relative poverty reduction,replacing household agricultural operational income,and the contribution of wage income from migration declined.Public transfers effectively reduced absolute poverty but not relative poverty.
文摘Using household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project(CHIP)in 2002 and 2013,changes in happiness are examined within rural,urban and migrant populations.During the survey period,happiness increased for urban and migrant groups but decreased for the rural population,accompanying dramatic income growth for all.Personal income positively and significantly affected happiness,but the effects of comparison income were different among the three groups.The income-happiness correlations declined from 2002 to 2013.Declining happiness in rural China can be primarily explained by weakened income-happiness relations and worsening health conditions.The happiness growth in urban areas mainly resulted from income growth,although the personal income effect on happiness was partly offset by the comparison income effect.The increasing happiness in migrants was mainly derived from income growth.
