Although China is experiencing a deterioration in wealth distribution where housing is playing a dominant role,this issue has received scant research attention despite its importance.Combining four rounds of the China...Although China is experiencing a deterioration in wealth distribution where housing is playing a dominant role,this issue has received scant research attention despite its importance.Combining four rounds of the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)data,this paper measures and discusses wealth inequality in China,with a special emphasis on the contribution of housing.Our analysis reveals that housing is the largest contributor to wealth inequality,responsible for around 70 percent of total wealth inequality,and its contribution has been increasing over time.Our research ejforts have focused on the housing wealth disparity,exploring its composition from alternative perspectives.The results show that housing wealth inequality has also been rising over time and an absolute majority of housing wealth inequality is due to within-group gaps.Finally,we employ Wan's(2004)regression-based decomposition methodology to quantify the contributions of dijferent determinants to housing wealth disparity in China,and to demonstrate serious biases in the conventional approach that is often used to analyze housing wealth inequality.展开更多
基金北京市优秀人才培养项目"财政分权与收入不平等:经验关系及作用机制研究"(20061D0503100309)全国统计科研重点项目"县级财力差异及相关问题研究"(LX:2006A37)加拿大IDRC\CIGI中国青年学者贫困研究网络项目"The Inequality of Fiscal Capacity at Countylevelin China"资助。
基金Financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71833003 and 72073091)the Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project(111 Project)(No.B16040)is acknowledged.
文摘Although China is experiencing a deterioration in wealth distribution where housing is playing a dominant role,this issue has received scant research attention despite its importance.Combining four rounds of the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)data,this paper measures and discusses wealth inequality in China,with a special emphasis on the contribution of housing.Our analysis reveals that housing is the largest contributor to wealth inequality,responsible for around 70 percent of total wealth inequality,and its contribution has been increasing over time.Our research ejforts have focused on the housing wealth disparity,exploring its composition from alternative perspectives.The results show that housing wealth inequality has also been rising over time and an absolute majority of housing wealth inequality is due to within-group gaps.Finally,we employ Wan's(2004)regression-based decomposition methodology to quantify the contributions of dijferent determinants to housing wealth disparity in China,and to demonstrate serious biases in the conventional approach that is often used to analyze housing wealth inequality.
