We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China’s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …

failing health drives retirement. We exploit the panel dimension of the 1991-93-97 waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

. We next consider the ability of village-level elections in rural China to reduce rent seeking, and the extent to which …