高等教育促进区域协调发展:影响机制与经验证据

Higher Education Promoting Regional Coordinated Development:Influencing Mechanisms and Empirical Evidence

高等教育为促进区域协调发展提供了新动能。基于高等教育影响区域协调发展的内在机理,采用2010—2021年中国31个省份的面板数据实证检验高等教育对区域协调发展的影响,可以发现:高等教育对区域协调发展具有显著促进作用,且该结论通过了一系列稳健性检验;高等教育主要通过提升劳动力技能水平、提高技术创新能力与促进文化资本积累三个路径,间接地推动区域协调发展;高等教育存在显著空间溢出效应,不仅能够推动本地区协调发展,还能够提升相邻地区协调发展水平,且地区间的作用强于地区内。异质性分析表明,高等教育对区域协调发展的促进作用主要存在于东中部地区。为充分发挥高等教育的驱动效应,各级政府及其相关部门应努力提升高等教育发展水平,增强高等教育影响区域协调发展的传导效果,注重高等教育空间溢出效应的有效发挥。

Higher education provides a new driving force for promoting coordinated regional development.Based on the internal mechanism of higher education affecting regional coordinated development,the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2010 to 2021 are used to empirically test the impact of higher education on regional coordinated development.It is found that higher education plays a significant role in promoting regional coordinated development,and this conclusion has passed a series of robustness tests.The promotion of coordinated regional development is primarily facilitated by higher education through three main channels:enhancing the skill level of the labor force,fostering capabilities for technological innovation,and encouraging the accumulation of cultural capital.Higher education has a significant spatialspillover effect,which can not only promote the coordinated development of the region,but also improve the coordinated development level of neighboring regions,and the role of inter-region is stronger than that of intra-region.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the promotion effect of higher education on regional coordinated development mainly exists in the east and middle regions.In order to give full play to the driving effect of higher education,efforts should be made to improve the development level of higher education,strengthen the transmission effect of higher education affecting the coordinated development of regions,and pay attention to the effective play of the spatial spillover effect of higher education.