The Impact of High-speed Railway Opening on the Income Gap between Urban and Rural Areas
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.191221.128How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- High-speed railway opening, Income gap between urban and rural residents, Population mobility, Policy evaluation
- Abstract
In recent years, the structure of traffic facilities in China has undergone epoch-making changes. As a new type of transportation facility, high-speed railway is convenient, efficient and punctual, which reduces the transaction cost of the regional economy and enlivens the flow of production factors. A new research perspective for narrowing the income gap between urban and rural residents in the region is offered. Based on the economic characteristics of high-speed railway, this work selected data from 30 provinces from 1999 to 2017. The double difference method (DID) was used to evaluate the impact of high-speed railway opening on the regional income gap between urban and rural residents. It is found that the high-speed railway opening will help to narrow the income gap between urban and rural residents during the investigation period. The further heterogeneity test shows that the high-speed railway opening significantly reduces the income gap between urban and rural residents in the central and western regions. This conclusion offered a useful theoretical support for the implementation of the targeted poverty alleviation policy in China.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hongjie Bao AU - Yilong Wang PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/09 TI - The Impact of High-speed Railway Opening on the Income Gap between Urban and Rural Areas BT - Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 531 EP - 534 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191221.128 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.191221.128 ID - Bao2020 ER -