kris_inwood, 7 months ago to econhist

Spatial mobility contributed to the long run persistence of inequality within China insofar as some rural elites mitigated a loss of status after the 1949 revolution by moving to cities, according to Matthew Noellert & Xiangning Li at the 2023 SSHA meeting in Washington.
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