Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Health Expenditure: Empirical Analysis Based on Different Caliber Indicators and Provincial Panel Data
10.7664/CHE20180604
- VernacularTitle:财政分权与地方公共卫生支出:基于不同口径指标与省级面板数据的实证分析
- Author:
Xiao-Hua NING
1
;
Ju-Ying ZHANG
Author Information
1. 中央财经大学财经研究院 北京 100081
- Keywords:
fiscal decentralization;
local public health expenditure;
empirical analysis
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2018;37(6):16-20
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To conduct empirical analysis on the impact mechanism of local public health expenditure based on fiscal decentralization.Methods:Using panel data of China's 31 provinces from 2010 to 2015,through static panels,FGLS,GMM estimation methods,the influence of different fiscal decentralization indexes on local public health expenditure in China were analyzed.Results:Different fiscal decentralization indexes had different effects on public health expenditure.Local governments with bigger fiscal autonomous income fight might increase public health expenditure effectively.Conclusion:It needed to further differentiate fiscal powers of the central and local governments reasonably,clear responsibility boundary,build the central and local public health expenditure hard constraint mechanism and improve the enthusiasm of local governments to provide unproductive public products.
