Author(s)

Gailiu Qu,Keke Xu

Corresponding Author

Gailiu Qu

Abstract

The income gap among residents in China is gradually widening, which has become one of the problems that have troubled Chinese social and economic development in recent years. In this paper, CLDS and CFPS databases are used to construct the intergenerational income flow model, trying to explain the mechanism of intergenerational transmission from the microscopic perspective of marriage matching. The research shows that the socioeconomic status of the father has a significant positive impact on the income of the offspring and their spouses. The intergenerational mobility in the western region is higher than that in the eastern region, but the gap between the east and the west is not large in the intergenerational transmission effect of marriage matching.

Keywords

Marriage matching; Intergenerational mobility; Regional differences