Comparative Regional Inequality Dynamics: Multiscalar and Multinational Perspectives

本研究项目将利用地理信息科学的最新发展，比较分析美国和中国地区不平等的动态。 由于研究人员将重点关注核心-边缘结构，地点流动性和标量效应，因此该项目将显着提高对空间不平等的基本理解。 该项目将以多种不同的方式促进对区域收入不平等动态的了解。 它将对区域不平等的多尺度性质进行系统研究，从而更清楚地了解区域不平等的动态及其与尺度的关系。 它将提供关于地方流动性和区域发展中的核心-边缘结构的新见解，并将提供关于地理在区域不平等中的作用的新视角。 项目的研究成果对国内和国际组织（如非营利组织、美国政府和中国政府）都很有价值，可以帮助他们更好地理解不平等问题，并促进制定更明智的政策，以公平的方式解决发展问题。空间不平等问题是地理学学科的核心，也是各国政府的主要关注点。 虽然由于最近的全球金融危机，不平等的地理状况受到了学术界和决策者的新关注，但关于空间不平等动态的现有知识是零散的。 此外，很少有比较分析试图综合目前的知识状况。 调查人员将使用传统和空间方法分析州/省，大都市区和县的区域不平等。 它们将把总体不平等分解为区域间和区域内的组成部分。 该奖项将通过空间马尔可夫链、时空模型和分解技术来研究地区收入流动性，重点关注地区收入分布上下变化的核心-外围结构和地方流动性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project will comparatively analyze the dynamics of regional inequality in the United States and China using recent developments in geographic information science. Because the investigators will focus on core-periphery structure, place mobility, and scalar effects, this project will significantly improve basic understanding of spatial inequality. This project will advance knowledge about the dynamics of regional income inequality in a number of different ways. It will provide a systematic study of the multi-scalar nature of regional inequality, thereby providing a clearer picture of the dynamics of regional inequality and its relationship to scale. It will provide new insights about place mobility and about the core-periphery structure in regional development, and it will provide new perspectives regarding the role of geography in regional inequality. Project findings should prove valuable to domestic and international organizations, such as non-profit organizations and the U.S. and Chinese governments, giving them improved understanding of inequality and facilitating the development of more informed policies that address development issues in equitable ways.Questions about spatial inequality lie at the heart of the discipline of geography and are of major concern to governments. While the geography of inequality has received new attention from academics and policy makers because of the recent global financial crisis, existing knowledge about spatial inequality dynamics is fragmented. Furthermore, few comparative analyses have sought to synthesize the current state of knowledge. The investigators will analyze regional inequality across states/provinces, metropolitan areas, and counties using conventional and spatial approaches. They will decompose overall inequality into interregional and intraregional components. They will examine regional income mobility using spatial Markov chain, spatiotemporal models, and decomposition techniques, which will focus on changing core-peripheral structure and mobility of places up and down the regional income distribution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.