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The Effect of Income Inequality on Household Consumption: Evidence from China Household Finance Survey Data

Ma, Shaoying
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511399435116049

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2017, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
This paper tests the effects of within-province income inequality on household consumption and education expenditures using the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data. Income inequality has a significant and positive impact on household consumption net of education expenditures in China, and no urban-rural heterogeneity of such effect is found. Income inequality significantly and positively affects education expenditures by the poor, and it has no impact on education expenditures by the middle class and the rich. The effect of income inequality on household consumption net of education expenditures varies across different quantiles of consumption distribution, and it is stronger at higher quantiles. The results are robust to various sets of household level control variables.
George Davis (Advisor)
Jing Li (Committee Member)
Janice Kinghorn (Committee Member)
Economics
Inequality; Consumption; Education expenditures; Keeping up with the Joneses; Status-seeking

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  • Ma, S. (2017). The Effect of Income Inequality on Household Consumption: Evidence from China Household Finance Survey Data [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511399435116049

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ma, Shaoying. The Effect of Income Inequality on Household Consumption: Evidence from China Household Finance Survey Data. 2017. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511399435116049.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ma, Shaoying. "The Effect of Income Inequality on Household Consumption: Evidence from China Household Finance Survey Data." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511399435116049

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