An Estimation of the Intergenerational Income Elasticity of China

Hau Chyi, Bo Zhou, Shenyi Jiang and Wei Sun

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2014, vol. 50, issue S6, 122-136

Abstract: Using 1989–2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey data, we estimate the intergenerational income elasticity (IIE) of China. We find that the lower bound of the IIE is 0.491 using the son’s latest observed income and his father’s income averaged over three periods. We use the father’s number of years of education as an instrumental variable for his permanent income to derive the upper bound of the IIE, which is 0.556. We find that the intergenerational income mobility of rural China is higher than that in urban areas.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2014.1013853

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