How does Fiscal Pressure Influence the Provision of Public Services at County Level？
YU Jingwen, CHEN Xiaoguang, GONG Liutang
International Business School, Beijing Foreign Studies University; The National Institute for Fiscal Studies,Tsinghua University; Guanghua School of Management and LMEQF, Peking University
Abstract:
Using the DID approach based on the quasi-experiment of nation-wide abolition of agriculture tax in 2005, this paper identifies the impact of fiscal pressure on the provision of public services at the county level. The empirical results show that fiscal pressure has negative effect on the county-level public education. Governments which suffered more fiscal revenue loss due to the agriculture tax abolition would tend to spend less on education. In addition, we also find that there is greater and more lasting negative effect in the long term. These basic results are robust to a number of specification tests on different fiscal shock index measurements, sample heterogeneity and other reforms which took place in the same period.
余靖雯, 陈晓光, 龚六堂. 财政压力如何影响了县级政府公共服务供给？[J]. 金融研究, 2018, 451(1): 18-35.
YU Jingwen, CHEN Xiaoguang, GONG Liutang. How does Fiscal Pressure Influence the Provision of Public Services at County Level？. Journal of Financial Research, 2018, 451(1): 18-35.
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