Microeconomic Determinants of Income Inequality in Rural Pakistan
利用巴基斯坦农村面板数据，通过回归分解技术识别影响收入不平等水平及其变化的家庭特征，发现土地所有权解释不平等水平，高等教育驱动不平等变化，而家庭位置对两者均有影响。
Inequality matters for poverty reduction. However, it is often unclear what policy could do to change the distribution of income as to date there is little quantitative evidence about the household characteristics that determine the level of income inequality and its changes over time. This paper sets out to identify these determinants by adapting a regression-based inequality decomposition technique and applying it to panel data from rural Pakistan. Land ownership is key to explaining the level of inequality, but not its changes. In contrast, higher education drives changes, but not the level of inequality. Household location affects both, reflecting growing differences in market access across regions.