China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility through the Hukou residential registration system and massive infrastructure investment, notably a 96,000 kilometer national expressway network. This paper develops a structural new economic geography model to examine the impacts of these policies. Fitting the model to available data allows simulating counterfactual scenarios comparing...
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2015/06/30
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政策研究报告
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WPS7350
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2015/06/30
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Hukou and highways : the impact of China’s spatial development policies on urbanization and regional inequality
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real wage