Economic Communication: The Influence of High-Speed Rail on Urban-Rural Income Inequality in China

Yu Jia (), Yunqian Wang (), Piao Li () and Shuang Gao ()
Additional contact information
Yu Jia: Wuhan University
Yunqian Wang: Research Institute, Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Piao Li: Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
Shuang Gao: Wuhan University

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2024, vol. 174, issue 1, No 3, 47-73

Abstract: Abstract Existing studies have explored the influence of high-speed rail (HSR) on efficiency-related outcomes. However, little attention has been paid to the issues of urban-rural income inequality in relation with HSR. Based on social exclusion theory, we suggest that HSR could enlarge urban-rural income inequality. Drawing on the methods of DID, PSM-DID, and the fixed effect model, we analyzed a panel data from 328 cities in China from 2006 to 2021, and found strong support for research hypothesis. The results show that the although HSR would be significant positive associated with urban-rural income inequality, governments can mitigate this adverse effect through effective governance. On the one hand, with the improvement of regional public transport accessibility, the positive impact of HSR on the urban-rural income inequality will be weakened; on the other hand, as the level of regional social security fiscal expenditure increases, the positive impact of HSR on the urban-rural income inequality would also be weakened.

Keywords: Urban-rural income gap; Social exclusion theory; Social equity; Regional institution; Economic communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11205-024-03375-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:soinre:v:174:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s11205-024-03375-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11135

DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03375-y

Access Statistics for this article

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement is currently edited by Filomena Maggino

More articles in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().