Zhang, Hong-wei; Chen, Wei-guo; Zhang, Jie - In: Applied Economics 44 (2012) 21, pp. 2717-2728
We examine the relationship between urban--rural income disparities and development in a panel data set of 30 provinces and regional subsets of China during the period of 1978 to 2006. There is an inverted-U relationship between the urban--rural income gap and per capita Gross Domestic Product...