中国教育与经济增长关系的实证分析

The Empirical Analysis of the Relation between China Education and the Economy Growth

通过对1978—2004年数据的分析,对中国教育与经济增长的关系进行了实证研究。结果表明,表征教育总量水平的财政教育支出对经济增长呈显著的正向作用,初等教育对经济增长的作用不显著,中等教育与高等教育对经济增长的作用十分显著。其中,中等教育的作用显著为正,而高等教育的作用显著为负。还考察了我国(1978—2004年)不同文化程度的人口对经济增长贡献的差异,并试图就职业教育对经济增长的贡献作初步探讨。

This article used 1978-2004 years data to analyze the relation between China education and the economy growth. The results .show that government education expenditure which characterizes total level of the national education plays a significant positive role in China＇s economic growth, the function of the primary education to our economy is not remarkable, the function of the .secondary education and the higher education is extremely remarkable. Among them, the function of secondary education is remarkably for positive, but the function of higher education is negative. In addition, in view of the fact that at present there are not literatures which make empirical study of the economy growth effect of the regular education and the vocational education classification. This article emphatically inspects the differences among the contributions of different years of schooling population to the economical growth of our country（1978-2004）, and attempts to make a preliminary discussion for the contribution of the vocational education to the economy growth.