Comparative Regional Inequality Dynamics: Multiscalar and Multinational Perspectives
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AWARD NUMBER
009679-002
FUND NUMBER
33417
STATUS
Active
AWARD TYPE
3-Grant
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AWARD EXECUTION DATE
4/4/2018
BEGIN DATE
5/1/2018
END DATE
4/30/2021
AWARD AMOUNT
$137,776
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Sponsor Information
SPONSOR AWARD NUMBER
SPONSOR
SPONSOR TYPE
FUNCTION
Organized Research
PROGRAM NAME
Proposal Information
PROPOSAL NUMBER
18020242
PROPOSAL TYPE
New
ACTIVITY TYPE
Basic Research
PI Information
PI
Rey, Sergio
PI TITLE
Other
PI DEPTARTMENT
Dean's Office
PI COLLEGE/SCHOOL
School of Public Policy
CO PIs
Project Information
ABSTRACT
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.(Abstract from NSF)
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