This study investigates broadband internet's impact on rural-urban migration in China, using the Universal Broadband and Telecommunication Services pilot program as a quasi-experimental setting. Analyzing China Household Finance Survey data (2013-2021) through difference-in-differences...

This paper reveals the mechanisms by which the spatial structure of morphological polycentricity (MP) affects the subjective well-being (SWB) in China, focusing on the distribution of economic activities. Using panel data for 21 provinces in China from 2010 to 2020, we compare the effects of...

Unternehmen fällt es zunehmend schwer, Stellen zu besetzen. Dabei sind ländliche Räume aktuell offenbar stärker von Fachkräfteengpässen betroffen als städtische Räume. Umfassend analysiert wurden diese regionalen Disparitäten bislang jedoch nicht. Wir untersuchen das Ausmaß von...

This working paper explores how food initiatives led by FARC ex-combatants contribute to peacebuilding and strengthen urban-rural linkages in Colombia. The study investigates the motivations behind ex-combatants' involvement in food initiatives, examines the connection between economic...

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

This study investigates the effects of city size and administrative rank on rural-urban migration in China and examines the factors that influence the city size effect. We focus on unemployed while job-seeking migrants. Using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey for 2016 and 2017, we find...

With growing cities and improving infrastructure all over the world, smallholder farms not only gain better access to agricultural markets but also off-farm labor markets. As a result, the opportunity cost of farm labor increases, and households' livelihood portfolios often become more complex,...

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou...

The current trend of rapid urbanization in the global south is overwhelmed by an ever‐increasing demand for land. This indeed has been exerting an objectionable pressure over peri‐urban land located immediately outside of urban territories. This challenge is more severe in developing...

Unternehmen fällt es zunehmend schwer, Stellen zu besetzen. Dabei sind ländliche Räume aktuell offenbar stärker von Fachkräfteengpässen betroffen als städtische Räume. Umfassend analysiert wurden diese regionalen Disparitäten bislang jedoch nicht. Wir untersuchen das Ausmaß von...

This paper addresses the way in which the expansion zones of the metropolitan areas of Medellín and Rionegro are currently moving from the communal relations that marked their rural life to anonymous relations in which notions of neighborliness are gradually disappearing. Understanding the...

This paper explores the regional impacts of heterogeneous fiscal redistribution policies on urbanrural income gaps. We construct market income and final income measures and use quantile regressions to estimate the impact across income deciles and across urban and rural areas of the different...

Urban and rural areas are interconnected in fulfilling the food demands of both sides. However, both unprecedented and predictable disasters are disrupting the food service. To address this issue, this paper discusses the need and significance of urban-rural coordination, which promotes use of...

This study examines how digital economy development in China impacts the urban-rural income gap. We construct a digital economy development index using panel data from 30 provinces and cities in China from 2013 to 2021. By combining a spatially varying coefficient model with a chain-mediated...

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998....

Urban sprawl has a wide-ranging impact on the urban-rural fringe of the post-socialist cities, which are the most dynamically changing areas of the countryside in the Central and Eastern European countries. Intensive construction activity and population growth can be seen in the outskirts. Due...

In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to its secondary role in the earliest years. For this...

This study investigates the role of digital inclusive finance (DIF) in strengthening rural economic resilience in China. Analyzing data from 31 Chinese provinces over 2011-2020, it explores how DIF impacts rural economic resilience, considering factors like the market environment and rural...

The article studies the impact of urbanization on income inequality in Vietnam, using panel data for 63 provinces and cities in the period 2010-2018. The study applies the fixed-effects regression model estimation method with the standard error of (Driscoll & Kraay, 1998) to test the...

In den vergangenen Jahren haben Stadt-Umland-Beziehungen wieder deutlich an gesellschaftspolitischer Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Der Hintergrund: Viele neu auftretende und sich verändernde Herausforderungen lassen sich nur im interkommunalen und regionalen Kontext bearbeiten. Hierzu gehört u. a....

Die Situation, die Entwicklungslinien und Perspektiven von Klein- und Mittelstädten in Deutschland und Frankreich werden verglichen und Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede innerhalb der Zentrale-Orte-Systeme und der Raumplanung beider Länder diskutiert. Mit unterschiedlichen Definitionsansätzen...

Urban-rural medical insurance integration aims to raise the medical insurance reimbursements for rural residents and ultimately improve their health. Using China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, we employ a time-varying difference-in-differences (DID) model to identify the impact...

This paper examines the employment situation of all counties in the United States. With a new framework designed to structure 3,283 counties into six tiers, I measure the progress of economic development across the rural-urban continuum. Benchmarks of establishments, employment level, and annual...

This research investigates the patterns of migration from rural villages to urban cities in the Zamboanga Peninsula Region of the Philippines. By employing a comprehensive data analysis approach, this study aims to uncover the key factors influencing migration dynamics and understand the...

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with special emphasis to the pathways through which urbanisation affect rural economic development. Assessments of these effects diverge greatly....

Alternative food networks (AFNs) represent local food systems and short supply chain networks alternative to global food systems. These networks are often developed within rural-urban interfaces and take various forms, due to the high propensity towards the innovative organization of the...

This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India's rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level. Besides, this study uses a cartogram map to examine knowledge-intensive business services...

A large amount of policy support is spent to foster the development of rural areas in Europe. However, empirical evidence on the well-being differential between rural and urban areas in Europe is scant and incomplete. The present study develops a systematic literature review on this topic,...

This study aims to investigate the influence of digital financial inclusion on China's urban- rural income disparity. A comparative analysis on income differences between western and eastern regions in China was conducted in this paper. The study utilized a static panel approach as it consisted...