孟霞：Incentives for local government expenditures on people’s livelihood: the role of high-speed rail.

我校经济管理学院孟霞老师在T2级别期刊——《Socio-Economic Planning Sciences》上发表题为“Incentives for local government expenditures on people’s livelihood: the role of high-speed rail”。论文第一作者孟霞为经济管理学院副教授。

Abstract /摘要：

Can high-speed rail (HSR) lines create effective incentives for local governments to supply public goods for people's livelihood? This paper builds a time-varying difference-in-differences (TVDID) model and uses 2002–2018 Chinese data. The empirical results show that HSR enhances the fiscal responsiveness of local governments and creates effective incentives for local governments' expenditures on education and medical/health care; however, this “HSR effect” does not significantly influence expenditures on social security or employment. The mechanism analysis shows that HSR has a significant amplification effect on interregional competition, specifically in terms of market access and human capital agglomeration. Notably, the opening of HSR lines forms a new “incentive-constraint” mechanism for local governments to supply public services for people's livelihood from both the supply and demand sides, and the fiscal and administrative capacities of local governments can strengthen the influence of HSR lines on the supply of public goods for people's livelihood.

Title/题目:

Incentives for local government expenditures on people’s livelihood: the role of high-speed rail

Authors/作者:

Meng Xia; Ding Tao; Wang Haisen

Keywords /关键词

High-speed rail;Market access;Human capital;Government capacity;Basic public services

Indexed by /核心评价

NSPEC;SCI;Scopus;SSCI;WAJCI

DOI:10.1016/J.SEPS.2023.101700

全文链接：

https://libproxy.cug.edu.cn/https/443/com/elsevier/linkinghub/yitlink/retrieve/pii/S0038012123002124