Spatial Relevance Effect of Fiscal Technology and EducationExpenditure on Haze Pollution
PANG Yumeng1, LIU Zhen2, PAN Yuchen3
1. School of Finance and Taxation, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210023, China; 2. School of Business, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China; 3. School of International Studies, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China
Abstract The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time regards beautiful China as an important goal of building a strong socialist modernization country, and regards strengthening environmental protection as an opportunity and an important grasp to promote economic and social development and ecological environment protection. The governance of environmental pollution is closely related to the fiscal expenditure of local governments. Based on the perspective of fiscal technology and education expenditure, this paper empirically examines the relationship between fiscal technology and education expenditure and haze pollution by using the data of 273 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2004 to 2017 through the spatial panel model. The results show that fiscal technology expenditure and education expenditure are negatively correlated with haze pollution intensity, and the effect of technology research expenditure in haze treatment is better than that of education expenditure. The results of sub-regional show that the impact of fiscal technology and education expenditure on haze pollution has regional heterogeneity, showing a weakening situation from east to west. From the perspective of the whole country, there is a certain lag effect on the impact of fiscal technology expenditure and education expenditure on haze pollution. Therefore, the key point at this stage is implementing the main responsibility of local governments in environmental protection, giving full play to the role of local public fiscal expenditure.
PANG Yumeng,LIU Zhen,PAN Yuchen. Spatial Relevance Effect of Fiscal Technology and EducationExpenditure on Haze Pollution. Economic Survey, 2020, 37(6): 0128.
2020, Vol. 37 
