Table 1 Overview of key previous studies on income distribution projections.
From: A dataset of income distribution on provincial, urban, and rural levels for China from 2020 to 2100
Methodology | Literature | Spatial level | Future inequality | Functional form |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Top-down: Income inequality + particular functional form | Calzadilla51 | Global | Constant | Lognormal |
Rao et al.14 | Country | Regression-based | ||
Fujimori et al.17 | Country | Rao et al.14 | Lognormal | |
Soergel et al.18 | Country | Rao et al.14 | Lognormal | |
Narayan et al.16 | Country | Rao et al.14 | Non-parametric | |
Casper et al.19 | U.S. State | Rao et al.14 | Non-parametric | |
Bottom-up: Microsimulation | Hallegatte and Mauro20 | Global | ||
Hallegatte and Rozenberg7 | Country | |||
