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Income inequality among minority farmers in China: Does social capital have a role?
Author(s) -
Liu Lin,
Paudel Krishna P.,
Li Guanghao,
Lei Ming
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12559
Subject(s) - economics , economic inequality , gini coefficient , income inequality metrics , inequality , poverty , income distribution , social capital , demographic economics , human capital , social inequality , quantile regression , panel data , household income , china , labour economics , development economics , economic growth , econometrics , geography , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , mathematics , archaeology
We used recently available household panel data collected by China's National Bureau of Statistics to examine the effects of natural, human, material, and social capital on income inequality among minority farmers in China's Xinjiang Province between 2011 and 2012. Results obtained from panel quantile regression and correlated random effects’ models show that income inequality and the poverty of ethnic farmers have been decreasing to some extent. Results also indicated that human capital exacerbates income inequality among the minorities, whereas the effect of natural capital on income inequality is not evident. Social and material capital reduce income inequality among ethnic minorities. Results from the decomposition of the Gini coefficient indicate that material and social capital contribute to a substantial majority of the income inequality in the region.