省级财政文化支出的决定因素研究——基于2005-2007年中国省级面板数据的实证分析

The Determinants of Provincial Public Expenditure on Generalized Culture Undertaking——An Analysis of Provincial Panel Data in China:2005-2007

公共文化事业对提升人们的幸福感以及促进社会的和谐发展非常重要。然而,对2005-2007年我国省级数据的描述统计发现,各省的财政文化支出占本省财政支出的比重较小且省际间差异较大。通过三因素文化支出模型的构建和省级面板数据的检验,实证分析结果表明一省财政文化支出的多寡主要受制于该省的财政能力,其次才是市场投资的推动,而公民文化需求的影响则最弱。这说明我国地方政府的财政文化投入离满足人们精神文化需求的目标还很远,应当引起决策者们的重视。

Public cultural undertaking is very important to the social well-being and the integrated development of our society. By using panel data from 2005 to 2007 of provinces in China, this paper tries to figure out what are the main factors that decide fiscal expenditure on cultural undertakings of local governments. Empirical analysis shows that the disparities of cultural undertakings among provinces were very apparent. The most decisive factor that decided the fiscal expenditure on generalized culture undertaking was the fiscal capacity of a local government. The second factor was the amount of market investment. But the analysis shows that the fiscal culture expenditure didn＇t respond to civic demand of cultural products significantly. So the decision makers should pay more attention on this phenomenon and satisfy the civic demands for public culture goods.