Abstract: Income mobility is an important index reflecting the solidification of income of all classes. By making use of the data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010, 2012 and 2014, this paper selects a number of indicators to conduct a statistical analysis of the income mobility of rural households. From the four dimensions of schooling education, vocational training, health care, and labor mobility, it discusses respectively the impacts of different ways of human capital investment on the income mobility of rural households. The results show that the investment of human capital in rural households have increased significantly, but there are large differences between the eastern, central and western regions, that the income mobility of rural households has a declining tendency, and the higher-income groups and the lower-income groups are solidified and intensified, and that there are obvious differences in the impacts of the four main human capital investment modes on the income mobility of rural households, while schooling education is the most effective way of human capital investment.

Key words: rural household; human capital investment; income mobility