International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2020
Effects of City Scale’s Expansion on Urban Residents’ Income Growth: Based on the Empirical Evidence of CHIP 2009
Publication: ICCREM 2020: Intelligent Construction and Sustainable Buildings
ABSTRACT
Based on the usage of instrumental variable estimate and the research sample-Chinese Household Income Project Survey (hereafter referred to as CHIP) 2009, this paper does a research on efficiency of urban residents’ income growth as well as their well-being caused by city scale’s expansion. The results show that, for one thing, city scale plays a driving role in this income growth which demonstrates as an inverted U-shape, for another, the city scale that maximizes the growth falls in the range of 2.8678 million to 2.8945 million in control of individual eigenvector and urban eigenvector. Consequently, the strategy to develop large cities is effective on improving urban residents’ income and well-being.
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ICCREM 2020: Intelligent Construction and Sustainable Buildings
Pages: 353 - 359
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Harbin Institute of Technology, Thomas Olofsson, Ph.D., Luleå University of Technology, and Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Hong Kong Polytechnic University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8323-7
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Published online: Oct 14, 2020
Published in print: Oct 14, 2020
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