A REEXAMINATION OF URBANIZATION AND URBAN-RURAL INCOME GAP IN CHINA——FROM SPATIAL PANEL PERSPECTIVE
基于2000-2008年省级面板数据，使用空间计量方法发现城市化率每提高1%会使城乡收入差距扩大0.39%，且各省份的收入差距存在空间交互效应。
Based on the province level panel data from 2000 to 2008,this paper focuses on the impact of urbanization on urban-rural income gap by manipulating the spatial econometrics.The study finds that urbanization enlarged the income gap and when urbanization rate grows one percent the income gap grows 0.39 percent.The paper also finds that there exist substantial spatial interaction effects among neighboring provinces in urban-rural income gap indicator.