Rising Inequalities in Income and Health in China: Who is left behind?

Steef Baeten, Tom Van Ourti and Eddy Van Doorslaer
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Steef Baeten: Erasmus University Rotterdam

No 12-091/V, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This discussion led to a publication in the 'Journal of Health Economics' , 2013, 32, 6, 1214–1229.

During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to health disparities between rich and poor. We find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo)men, but not to the growth rate of average incomes over the last decades. These findings suggest that replacement incomes and pensions at older ages may be one of the most important policy levers in combating health disparities between rich and poor Chinese.

Keywords: China; income growth; income inequality; income mobility; health inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 D30 D63 I14 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-09-10
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