地方政府行为与城乡收入差距

Local Government Behavior and Urban-Rural Income Gap

当前,中国正逐步向治理能力和治理体系现代化转变,这就要求地方政府行为比过去更加系统化、协同化和现代化,在此背景下研究地方政府行为对缩小城乡收入差距的作用,有助于检测中国治理能力与治理体系现代化的实际进展,更有助于促进中国全面脱贫和共同富裕。基于2004-2016年中国283个地级市的面板数据对地方政府行为与城乡收入差距的关系进行研究,结果表明:综合性地方政府行为可以显著降低城乡收入差距,在控制其他控制变量、城市固定效应和时间固定效应条件下,这一结果依然显著;我国地方政府行为对缩小城乡收入差距的影响效应具有显著的异质性;在剔除极端值、替换被解释变量以及用时间距离和地理距离解决内生性问题等多种稳健性检验条件下,地方政府行为依然使城乡收入差距显著降低。地方治理能力和治理体系所决定的地方行为正向作用表明:地方治理能力和治理体系在不断地改善。

At present,China is gradually shifting to a modern governance system and governance capacity,which forces local government behavior to be more systematic,synergistic and modernized.Under this condition,the role of local government behavior in narrowing the urban-rural income gap is studied.To provide a solid foundation for the construction of China′s modern governance system and comprehensive poverty alleviation,this paper,based on the panel data of 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004 to 2016,studies the relationship between local government behavior and urban-rural income gap.The results show that comprehensive local government behavior can significantly reduce the urban-rural income gap over other control variables.Even the conditions of urban fixed effect and time fixed effect under consideration,this result is still significant;the effect of local government behavior on narrowing the urban-rural income gap also has significant heterogeneity.Under the conditions of various robustness tests such as solving endogenous problems,when eliminating extreme values,replacing interpreted variables,and using time distance and geographic conditions,the local government behavior can still significantly reduce the urban-rural income gap.