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Entropy-based China income distributions and inequality measures

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  • Fu, Qiuzi
  • Villas-Boas, Sofia B
  • Judge, George

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We use information theoretic information recovery methods, on a 2005 sample of household income data from the Chinese InterCensus, to estimate the income distribution for China and each of its 31 provinces and to obtain corresponding measures of income inequality. Using entropy divergence methods, we seek a probability density function solution that is as close to a uniform probability distribution of income (with the least inequality), as the data will permit. These entropy measures of income inequality reflect how the allocation and distribution systems are performing, and we show the advantages of investigating province variation in income inequality using entropy measures rather than Gini coefficients. Finally, we use a sample of data from the China Family Panel Study to recover an estimate of the 2010 and the 2016 to investigate possible directions of inequality changes using these different additional data sources, given that the 2015 Inter-Census is not yet available.

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  • Fu, Qiuzi & Villas-Boas, Sofia B & Judge, George, 2019. "Entropy-based China income distributions and inequality measures," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt03n491s7, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
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    1. Judge, George G. & Villas-Boas, Sofia B. & Fu, Quizi, 2017. "An Entropy Based Analysis Of European Micro Income Distributions And Inequality Measures," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt2sr9g4n8, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
    2. Judge,George G. & Mittelhammer,Ron C., 2012. "An Information Theoretic Approach to Econometrics," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521869591.
    3. Judge,George G. & Mittelhammer,Ron C., 2012. "An Information Theoretic Approach to Econometrics," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521689731.
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