The Sins of the Fathers: Intergenerational Income Mobility in China
The Sins of the Fathers: Intergenerational Income Mobility in China
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10.1111/roiw.12222
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2017-06
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Weici Yuan
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Weici Yuan
本文旨在对中国的代际收入流动性进行准确的估计，并提供其分配模式的证据。利用1989-2009年中国健康与营养调查（CHNS）的面板数据，我发现中国的移动的程度低于大多数发达国家。然后，我采用五种不同的方法来研究中国代际流动在不同收入水平上的分布模式。研究结果表明，贫困家庭的流动性相对较高，这为贫困儿童摆脱贫困提供了机会。最后，我表明，虽然富有的父亲可能会把他们有利的经济地位传递给他们的儿子，富有的儿子来自一个非常广泛的家庭经济背景。
This paper aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. Using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) over the period 1989–2009, I find that China is less mobile than most developed countries. Then, I employ five different approaches to investigate the distributional pattern of China's intergenerational mobility across income levels. The results suggest that poor families have relatively high mobility, indicating opportunities for the poor children to escape poverty. Finally, I show that while wealthy fathers are likely to pass on their favorable economic status to their sons, rich sons come from a very wide range of family economic backgrounds.