高等教育中外合作办学对我国经济增长影响的实证研究

An Empirical Study on the Impact of the Opening-Up of Higher Education on China s Economic Growth:Evidence from Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools

本文以中外合作办学为分析对象,采用我国1997—2019年的省级面板数据,通过固定效应模型和门槛回归模型检验高等教育对外开放与经济增长之间的关系。实证结果发现:高等教育中外合作办学规模与省际经济发展水平之间呈现显著正相关关系,高等教育中外合作办学机构规模和办学项目规模均对经济增长有显著促进效应;本科和研究生教育阶段的中外合作办学规模对省际经济增长的影响存在差异,中外合作办学规模对经济增长的影响存在地区差异;考虑门槛模型后,中外合作办学规模与经济增长之间呈现非单调、非线性的关系。根据实证发现,本文建议为进一步促进高等教育阶段教育对外开放,我国应进一步扩大中外合作办学规模,调整区域中外合作办学资源配置结构,丰富中外合作办学形式,并对经济社会发展较为落后的省份和农村地区进行经济扶持和人才调配。

This paper examines the relationship between the opening-up of education at the higher education level and economic growth through fixed-effects models and threshold regression models,using inter-provincial panel data from 1997–2019 in Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools as the main object of concern.The empirical results show that:there is a significant positive relationship between the scale of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools and economic development level,and both the impact coefficients of the number of institutions on economic growth and that of the number of programs are significant;the impact of the scale of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools on economic growth is heterogeneous in terms of educational level and economic development regions;after considering the threshold model,the relationship between the scale of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools and economic growth shows a non-monotonic and non-linear relationship.To further promote the opening-up of education at higher education stage,China should further expand the scale,adjust the regional configuration structure,and diversify the form of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools.The government should also provide economic support and talent deployment to less developed provinces and rural areas.