基层分权改革与农村社会公共品供给——基于DID方法的经验证据

Grass-root decentralization reform and the supply of rural social public goods——Empirical data based on DID method

分权能否提高下级政府对辖区居民公共品需求的响应度,本文以基层分权改革较为典型的浙江扩权改革为对象,利用其56个县市面板数据和DID方法对这一问题进行分析。研究发现,扩权改革对农村社会不同类型公共品供给的影响存在明显差异,扩权改革显著提高了硬公共品供给水平,对软公共品供给产生负面影响。扩权改革后,县市政府对农村社会软硬公共品供给偏好差异不仅与扩权改革所处的体制环境有关,与扩权本身改革策略也有一定关系。

With the typical grass - root decentralization reform in Zhejiang province as the object, this paper uses the panel data from 56 counties and the method of DID to analyze whether decentralization improves the response of governments at lower levels to their residents＇ demands for public goods. The study finds that power expansion reform has different influences to the supply of different kinds of public goods in rural areas. The power expansion reform significantly increases the supply of hard public goods, while it has negative effects on the increase of soft public goods. After the power expansion reform, differences of city or county governments preference to the supply of soft and hard public goods are not only related to the system institutional environment for power expansion reform, but also related to reform strategy of power expansion.