Replication data for: The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989–2009

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis; Yu Zheng

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Project Citation: 

Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Rau¨l, and Zheng, Yu. Replication data for: The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989–2009. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114143V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We exploit a novel and unique opportunity to document the transmission of income risk to consumption in a growing economy. Our laboratory is China, an economy that has witnessed enormous and sustained growth. We build a long panel of household-level consumption and income data. We find that consumption insurance deteriorates along the growth process with a transmission of permanent income shocks to consumption that at least triples from 1989 to 2009. Although preliminary, our welfare analysis suggests that the loss of consumption insurance can have first-order implications for the welfare assessment of economic growth.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Consumption insurance; growth; welfare
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      E21 Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
      P24 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: National Income, Product, and Expenditure; Money; Inflation
      P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
      P36 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage China
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1989 – 2009
Universe:  View help for Universe Rural and Urban households surveyed in the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source China Health and Nutrition Survey
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Household,

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