HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2024, Vol. 63 ›› Issue (3): 231-235.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2024.03.034

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The impact of rural population aging on the consumption gap between urban and rural areas: Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as an example

LEI Xun, TU Wei-liang   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, Hubei, China
  • Received:2023-11-22 Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-04-07

Abstract: Based on the provincial panel data of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2012 to 2021, the OLS model was constructed to analyze the impact of rural population aging on the urban-rural consumption gap in the economic belt. The results showed that the aging of rural population in the Yangtze River Economic Belt had a significant narrowing effect on the urban-rural consumption gap, while it had a significant expanding effect on the per capita consumption expenditure of urban and rural residents. The expanding effect on the per capita consumption expenditure of urban residents was smaller than that on the per capita consumption expenditure of rural residents. The regional regression results indicated that the aging of rural population had a significant narrowing effect on the urban-rural consumption gap in various regions of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the narrowing effect on the urban-rural consumption gap in the middle reaches was stronger, followed by the narrowing effect on the upstream, and the smallest effect was on the downstream.

Key words: aging of rural population, urban-rural consumption gap, Yangtze River Economic Belt

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