Economic Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships for regional revitalization: Public Works in Local Governments in the Post-COVID-19

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K20137
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0107:Economics, business administration, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kanto Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Fukuda Yukari 関東学院大学, 経済学部, 講師 (70907493)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: COVID-19 / 地方移住

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We explored the factors of urban exodus in terms of land price, fear of infection, medical infrastructure, and geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we found that the fear of infection was one of the main factors that had driven urban exodus in Tokyo. We also found that people chose to live in reasonably priced habitable areas. However, people who moved out from populated central areas did not necessarily move in less populated and more remote areas. This suggests that the urban exodus may subside in the Post-COVID-19.

Free Research Field

公共経済学、応用ミクロ経済学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ポストコロナ時代にテレワークが浸透し、元々都心に住んでいた人が地方に定住するのか、それとも再び都心回帰が見られるのかを実証的に検証することは、今後の地方創生のあり方に大きな意義をもつといえる。コロナ禍での居住地選択に関する研究は、国内外で数多く存在するものの、各自治体の行政サービスの魅力度を定式化し、地価、感染者数、医療インフラ、地理的な情報、産業構造の差異の観点から地域間の人口移動がいかなる要因で変化してきたかを実証的に検証している研究は筆者の論文だけである。