Spatial price differences and inequality in China: Housing market evidence

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Spatial price differences and inequality in China: Housing market evidence

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The large literature on regional inequality in China is hampered by incomplete evidence on price dispersion across space, making it hard to distinguish real and nominal inequality. The two main methods used to calculate spatial deflators have been to price a national basket of goods and services across China’s different regions or else to estimate a food Engel curve and define the deflator as that needed for nominally similar households to have the same food budget shares in all regions. Neit...

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2013-03

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Gibson, John / Li, Chao

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7670

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housing / inequality / prices / spatial / China

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