经济增长压力、财政支出偏向与城乡收入差距

Economic Growth Pressures,Fiscal Expenditure Propensity and the Rural-urban Income Disparity

协同实现“宏观经济持续稳定增长”与“显著缩小城乡收入差距”是共同富裕的重要内容,也是我国地方政府的施政目标。本文结合增长目标管理,考察地方政府经济增长压力对城乡收入差距的影响,并基于2003-2019年地级市面板数据进行实证检验。研究发现,经济增长压力与城乡收入差距之间存在U型关系。机制分析表明,地方政府财政支出偏向差异是引发该非线性关系的主要原因。异质性分析发现,经济增长压力对城乡收入差距的影响存在明显的区域差异,提升城镇化水平和经济发展质量均有助于缩小城乡收入差距。本文为我国城乡收入差距的变动机理提供了新视角,为更加全面理解地方政府经济增长激励提供新的经验证据,研究结论对扎实推动共同富裕具有重要意义。

Achieving"sustained and stable macroeconomic growth"and"significantly narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas"are important elements of common prosperity,and they are also the main objectives of local governments in China.In conjunction with the management of growth target,this paper examines the impact of local governments'economic growth pressures on the urban-rural income gap,and uses panel data of prefecture level cities from 2003 to 2019 to conduct empirical tests.It is found that there is a U-shaped relationship between economic growth pressure and urban-rural income gap.Mechanism test finds that the main reason for this non-linear relationship is the biased difference in local government fiscal spending.Heterogeneity analyses finds that there are clear regional differences in the impact of economic growth pressures on the urban-rural income gap.Increasing the level of urbanization and improving the quality of economic development are both conducive to narrowing the urban-rural income gap.This paper provides a new perspective on the mechanism of changes in the urban-rural income gap in China,provides new empirical evidence for a more comprehensive understanding of the incentives of local governments for economic growth.The research conclusions are of great significance for the solid promotion of common prosperity.