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Regional favouritism and education development

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posted on 2023-05-21, 07:48 authored by Wang, C, Yifan Lu
Regional studies have found significant agglomeration effects of education development on economic growth. Regional favouritism is potentially closely related to public investment in education, further impacting regional growth. This paper provides significant empirical evidence on the potential impact of favouritism on education development in the Chinese context. Using data for 282 Chinese cities from 1996 to 2016 with treatment for endogeneity (Lewbel two-stage least squares estimator), the results provide evidence that Chinese provincial political leaders favour their birthplaces' education resource development, and that the effect is larger for within-provincial impact and higher tier cities ranked by income.

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Publication title

Regional Studies, Regional Science

Volume

9

Pagination

302-319

ISSN

2168-1376

Department/School

Australian Institute of Health Service Management (AIHSM)

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Regional planning

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