Is spatial distribution of China’s population excessively unequal? A cross-country comparison

Kyung-Min Nam ()
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Kyung-Min Nam: The University of Hong Kong

The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, vol. 59, issue 2, No 8, 453-474

Abstract: Abstract This study explores whether China’s population distribution is excessively biased toward large cities or coastal regions. The test is based on a fixed effects model estimated from a 5-year panel dataset for 101 countries, and two spatial inequality measures are computed from $$0.25^{\circ }\times 0.25^{\circ }$$ 0 . 25 ∘ × 0 . 25 ∘ population grids for a parallel cross-country comparison. The results show that the spatial Gini coefficient for China does not deviate from a general trend, while Moran’s I index is biased upward. This suggests that the spatial inequality of China’s population distribution tends to be more obvious at the regional level than at the city level.

JEL-codes: C10 O18 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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