China's Income Distribution, 1985–2001
用新方法从公开区间汇总数据估算中国1985-2001年城乡及总体收入分布，发现城乡内部不平等和城乡收入差距对总体不平等增长贡献相当，且近年城乡差距作用增大，城市消费不平等也显著上升。
We employ a new method to estimate China's income distribution using publicly available interval summary statistics. We examine rural, urban, and overall income distributions from 1985 to 2001. We show how the distributions change directly, and we examine trends in inequality. Using an intertemporal decomposition of aggregate inequality, we determine that increases in inequality within rural and urban sectors and the growing rural-urban income gap have been equally responsible for the growth in overall inequality over the last two decades. However, the rural-urban gap has played an increasingly important role in recent years. We also show that the urban consumption inequality rose considerably. © 2005 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.