Development of Platform Economy and Urban–Rural Income Gap: Theoretical Deductions and Empirical Analyses

Against the historical background of burgeoning platform economy and promotion common prosperity, this paper focuses on impact development urban–rural income gap. Theoretical mechanism analyses are conducted from three aspects such as nonlinear action gap, rural human capital level-based moderating effect, spatial spillover effect. Moreover, empirical carried out using threshold model, interaction lag model in turn with panel data 31 provinces China 2013 to 2020. The results study show that there is a significant double effect initial can improve inequality, scale will further contribute reduction but expansion market share deepening monopoly have suppressive equilibrium. There reducing inequality. increase level enhance driving rural–urban effects for impacts gap it positively promotes coordinated urban areas neighboring provinces. Based above results, makes policy proposals perfecting system standard platform, improving level, optimizing platform-based regional cooperation.