Regional impact of aging population on economic development in China: Evidence from panel threshold regression (PTR).

ABSTRACT: The aging population is a common problem faced by most countries in the world. This study uses 18 years (from 2002 to 2019) of panel data from 31 regions in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Province), and establishes a panel threshold regression model to study the non-linear impact of the aging population on economic development. It is different from traditional research in that this paper divides 31 regions in China into three regions: Eastern, Central, and Western according to the classification standard of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and compares the different impacts of the aging population on economic development in the three regions. Although this study finds that the aging population promotes the economy of China's eastern, central, and western regions, d

SUBMITTER: Liang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10013891 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature