Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality?
Abstract This paper quantifies the impact of resource dependence reduction on income inequality. Using an exogenous shock triggered by China’s sustainable program for resource-based regions and prefecture-level data during 2004–2020, we perform a difference-in-differences estimation and find that re...
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| description | Abstract This paper quantifies the impact of resource dependence reduction on income inequality. Using an exogenous shock triggered by China’s sustainable program for resource-based regions and prefecture-level data during 2004–2020, we perform a difference-in-differences estimation and find that reducing resource dependence has a sizable narrowing effect on urban-rural income gap. On average, the sustainable program reduces the gap (as measured by a ratio indicator) by 4.11%, with the effect being more pronounced in regions with initial low institutional quality. Further evidence suggests that the rise of labor-intensive industries and the increased rural investment, which benefit the poor more, help explain the narrowing effect. This paper sheds light on the sustainable development of resource-dependent regions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b13459ad2dff45ada14e36529fb9ff072025-08-20T02:31:48ZengSpringer NatureHumanities & Social Sciences Communications2662-99922024-12-0111111310.1057/s41599-024-04228-2Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality?Zhijiu Yang0Mengxu Li1School of Business, Jiangnan UniversitySchool of Economics and Management, China University of GeosciencesAbstract This paper quantifies the impact of resource dependence reduction on income inequality. Using an exogenous shock triggered by China’s sustainable program for resource-based regions and prefecture-level data during 2004–2020, we perform a difference-in-differences estimation and find that reducing resource dependence has a sizable narrowing effect on urban-rural income gap. On average, the sustainable program reduces the gap (as measured by a ratio indicator) by 4.11%, with the effect being more pronounced in regions with initial low institutional quality. Further evidence suggests that the rise of labor-intensive industries and the increased rural investment, which benefit the poor more, help explain the narrowing effect. This paper sheds light on the sustainable development of resource-dependent regions.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04228-2 |
| spellingShingle | Zhijiu Yang Mengxu Li Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| title | Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? |
| title_full | Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? |
| title_fullStr | Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? |
| title_short | Escaping the resource curse: does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality? |
| title_sort | escaping the resource curse does resource dependence reduction mitigate income inequality |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04228-2 |
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