教育投入比与地区经济增长差异

The Ratio of Education Investment and Differences in Regional Economic Growth

本文在Lucas(1988)等的基础上,将人力资本的教育投入主体分为非政府教育投入和政府教育投入两类,分析均衡条件下两类教育投入比与长期经济增长的关系,较好地刻画了在一定条件下非政府教育投入对于长期经济增长的重要意义。以此为基础,用1996—2005年中国的面板数据进行了分类比较和实证检验,结果表明,中国的政府和非政府投入对于人力资本积累和经济增长具有短期效应。在教育投入比相对较低的地区,物质资本投入是拉动经济增长主要原因,而非政府投入的增长对人力资本积累的效果更加明显。

Based on Lucas （1988）, this paper bifurcates educational funding sources into government funding and non-government funding and explores their respective impact on long-term economic growth under equilibrium conditions. The approach to a large extent depicts the importance of non-government educational investment in long-term economic growth under certain conditions. Based upon the theoretical model established, empirical analysis was conducted using panel data in China from the period of 1996 to 2005, which indicates that government and non-government educational investment have short-term effect on human capital accumulation and economic growth in China. Furthermore, in regions where the ratio of non-government educational investment to government educational investment is low, physical capital investment is the main driver for economic growth while an increase in non-government educational investment has a particularly significant impact on human capital accumulation.