China’s demographic changes have important global economic and geopolitical implications. Yet, our understanding of … both the county and prefectural-city levels. We show that the massive internal migration drives China’s increasing …

Background: China’s long term Gini coefficient is higher than the international warning line and the urban-rural income …, using 1054 counties data of 15 provinces in Midwestern China from 2000 to 2007, we analyze the impact of transfer payments … on urban-rural income gap in this paper. Results: The results show that local government in western China paid more …