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In this chapter, the authors propose various wealth gap indexes using data on both micro and macro levels. A thorough descriptive analysis of the statistical distribution of China’s current social wealth gap is then conducted with the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) database.
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Zhu, X., Lin, S. (2019). Wealth Gap Index Construction and Data Analysis. In: Equity Index Construction and Research on Wealth Gap. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9554-3_3
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