Regional favouritism and education development

Regional Studies, Regional Science

Cong Wang¹  Yifan Lu² 

[1] Department of Economics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia;Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia;

关键词: regional favouritism;    education development;    regional growth;    Chinese cities;    N1;    R1;   

DOI  :  10.1080/21681376.2022.2072762

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Regional studies have found significant agglomeration effects of education development on economic growth. Regional favouritism is potentially closely related to public investment in education, further impacting regional growth. This paper provides significant empirical evidence on the potential impact of favouritism on education development in the Chinese context. Using data for 282 Chinese cities from 1996 to 2016 with treatment for endogeneity (Lewbel two-stage least squares estimator), the results provide evidence that Chinese provincial political leaders favour their birthplaces’ education resource development, and that the effect is larger for within-provincial impact and higher tier cities ranked by income.

【 授权许可】

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