Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …

This paper uses two large panel data sets in China to study the effects of a health shock on household income mobility …. At the aggregated level, a health shock lowers the probability of "getting out of the low-income trap" by 8.4 percentage … points. At the household level, a health shock lowers household income per capita by 13.1%, and income position by 3 …