地方竞争对居民幸福感的影响效应

A Study of the Effect of Local Competition on Residents’ Happiness

提升居民幸福感是化解新时代社会主要矛盾的一种举措,也是地方政府落实新发展理念的重要体现。基于CHIP数据,实证考察地方竞争对居民幸福感产生的直接和间接双重效应。研究发现:地方竞争对居民幸福感产生了一些负向效应,加入其他控制变量以及考虑地区异质性后,这一负向效应依然显著。在间接传导路径中,地方竞争对民生性支出产生挤出效应,从而影响民生性支出对居民幸福感的提升作用。地方竞争对居民幸福感的影响存在异质性,在东部和农村地区的负向效应最大。

Promoting residents'happiness is a key measure to resolve the major social contradictions in the new era,and also an important embodiment of the implementation of the new development concept by local governments.Based on CHIP data,this paper empirically examines the dual effects of local competition on the residents'happiness.The results show that local competition has a direct negative effect on the residents'happiness.After adding other control variables and considering regional heterogeneity,the negative effect is still significant.In the indirect transmission path,the local competition produces crowding-out effect on the livelihood public expenditure,thus affecting its promotion.The impact of the local competition on the residents'happiness is heterogeneous,and the negative effect is the greatest in the eastern and rural areas.