[2019-03-26]"The International Workshop of China-Japan-Korea Micro-simulation Research & The Launch Meeting of Personal Income Tax Micro-Simulation Research Reports" was held in Beijing Normal University

On 25 th March 2019, The International Workshop of China-Japan-Korea Micro-simulation Research & The Launch Meeting of Personal Income Tax Micro-Simulation Research Reports was held in JingShiXueTang, in Beijing Normal University. Seiichi Inagaki ,Professor at International University of Health and Welfare in Japan ,Chang-Won Ahn, Principal researcher at Software & Content Research Lab., ETRI , South Korea, Ling Zhu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanjun Liu ,Director of Taxation Monitoring Office, Revenue Planning and Accounting Division, State Administration of Taxation, Guocheng Wang Researcher, Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, CASS, Linping Xiong ,Professor, Second Military Medical University, Yanqun Zhang ,Researcher, Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, CASS ,KaiYu, dean of Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, CASS ，Yudong Qi ,Dean of Business School, Beijing Normal University , Shi Li ,Executive Dean of CIID, Beijing Normal University and Dean of Center for Policy Simulation of CIID, Beijing Normal University ,Chuliang Luo ,Deputy Dean of CIID, Beijing Normal University, Haiyuan Wan ,Deputy Dean of CIID, Beijing Normal University, Xiangyu Wan ,Center for Policy Simulation of CIID, Beijing Normal University and other foreign experts attended the meeting. Yudong Qi ,Dean of Business School, Beijing Normal University , addressed the forum at first to express his warm welcome to the experts attending the meeting. Shi Li , Executive Dean of CIID, Beijing Normal University, Dean of Center for Policy Simulation of CIID, introduced the process of Micro-simulation Modelling in China.

[2019-03-19]The schedule:The International Workshop of China-Japan-Korea Micro-simulation Research & The Launch Meeting of Personal Income Tax Micro-Simulation Research Reports

In order to promote the income distribution and social security policy of quantitative research, Institute of Beijing Normal University, China Institute for Income Distribution plans to hold the "The International Workshop of China-Japan-Korea Micro-simulation Research & The Launch Meeting of Personal Income Tax Micro-Simulation Research Reports". The meeting will be held on March 25th, 2019 at JingShiXueTang,BNU, we sincerely invite you to participate in.

[2018-06-14]Summer Internship—Center for Policy Simulation (CPS) Internship Positions Available

We have now 7 summer internship positions available due to our recent project needs.

[2018-06-02]Direct of Office of Information Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and his team visited Center of Policy Stimulation (CPS)

On 1st June 2018, Zhang Zhiqi, Director of Office of Information Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, led his team to visit Center of Policy Stimulation of Beijing Normal University (CPS, BNU). Professor Wan Haiyuan and Doctor Zhan Peng, the Vice Director of China Institute for Income Distribution of Beijing Normal University (CIID, BNU) and the Coordinator from Centre of Policy Stimulation, hosted Director Zhang’s team in the conference room 9504, in Jingshi Hotel. Doctor Wan Xiangyu, the Assistant Researcher of Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Science and researcher of CIID also participated the meeting.

[2018-05-21]Professor Carols Gradin visited Beijing Normal University and lectured on Inequality

On 16th May 2018, Professor Carlos Gradin conducted the first lecture of the Income Inequality Lecture Series at 2:30 pm in room 1610 in the North Main Building. During this Symposium, we invited Professor Carlos Gradin, a researcher from UNU-WIDER, whose research focuses on poverty, inequality and discrimination issues in developed and developing countries, with a special focusing on inequality among different social groups such as gender, race and ethnic.

[2020-05-05]No.82-Sweden’s Pension Architecture, Philosophy and How It Works in Practice

This paper presents the architecture of the Swedish pension system, the philosophy behind it and illustrates how it works in practice. At the foundation of the Swedish pensions landscape is the public pension commitment. It is based on the philosophy that all countries must begin with: The commitment to provide a sufficient minimum standard of living in old age for all. This is the role of the necessary pillar zero. Pillars one and two consist of mandatory universal public nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) and a financial defined contribution (FDC) schemes. These cover the earnings of all employees and self-employed – up to a ceiling. In principle, the technical construction of the NDC and the guarantee benefits – explained in greater detail in the paper – can be viewed together as a package that fulfills the guaranteed minimum standard of living in old age, while making full use of the DC accounts to provide an incentive for individuals to contribute to their own retirement income.

[2019-11-06]No.80-Assessing Social Welfare Effects of Government Safety-net Programs: International Comparisons

This paper offers a new prospect on assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measures the program efficiency without specifying a poverty line and poverty measures. The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting, which provides a basis for measuring the program efficiency. By applying the methodology developed in this paper, we compare the targeting efficiencies of 44 countries at different stages of economic development and show that governmental transfers can play a critical role in explaining the Kuznets curve.

[2019-08-25]No.79-When Poverty Reduction Meets Democracy: The Effectiveness of Dibao Using Different Evaluation Methods

Effective targeting is crucial for the success of any social programme. Different evaluation methods may yield different results for any given social programme. This paper evaluates the minimum living standard guarantee programme (Dibao) in rural China using several methods, such as the income approach, the multi-dimensional poverty approach, and a proxy means test approach, and finds the targeting accuracy increases the more comprehensive the evaluation method. As the Dibao fund allocation is largely decided in the villagers’ meeting democratically with a holistic view, it may appear to suffer from a low level of targeting accuracy when simply using an income approach, but may in fact more accurate in alleviating real poverty. This paper argues that a democratically allocate social assistance fund may be a better way in combating real poverty in many developing countries, as it requires less administrative capacity and overcomes the difficulties of identifying the poor.

[2019-08-25]No.78-Weights for CHIP2007 and 2013

This documentation introduced the idea to create the weights for CHIP2007 and 2013. The original information and final weight values are also reported.

[2019-05-21]No.77-Relative Deprivation and Social Groups in China

This paper studies the welfare implications of inequality among social groups by linking relative deprivation with theory of relative utility. It applies a methodology that identifies social groups that suffer greater deprivation relative to the average for the whole society, as a result of the rising inequality in China. Using five waves of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIPs) from 1988 to 2013, it provides the dynamic evolution of deprivation suffered by different social groups such as rural residents, the elderly, the low educated group, and those live in the Western inland. Our findings provide evidence of the success of urbanization, development of Western areas and education expansion in reducing inequality and deprivation in China.