The effect of income inequality on human capital inequality: Evidence from China
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Human capital inequality; Income inequality; Human capital gini coefficient; Income gini coefficient; Fixed-effect IV panel estimation;All these keywords.
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- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
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