县级政府间教育支出的策略互动:标尺竞争机制识别

Strategic Interaction in Educational Spending across China’s Counties: Identification of Yardstick Competition

本文在梳理标尺竞争机制识别潜在干扰性因素的基础上,通过对干扰性因素进行控制,并借助竞争者数量、换届周期、4%任务期三个外生政治因素构建识别策略,对教育支出标尺竞争机制进行识别。利用2007~2011年县级义务教育支出面板数据进行实证检验,发现标尺竞争是县级政府间教育支出策略互动的主要原因。本文的边际贡献在于:一是在多级政府结构中考虑了潜在的干扰性机制和因素;二是结合制度背景识别出教育支出的标尺竞争机制。

This paper gives a full list of disturbing factors for the identification of the yardstick competition.The yardstick competition in educational service is identified with controlling the disturbing factors and by adopting empirical strategies based on the competitor size,the political cycle and the 4%task period.Using the county panel data of the compulsory educational spending in 2007~2011,this research shows that the strategic interaction across counties is mainly driven by the yardstick competition.The marginal contributions are as follows:(1)the consideration of all possible disturbing factors in multi-tiered government structure,and(2)the identification of the yardstick competition in the provision of local education in the context of certain institutions.