Population Mobility, Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Governance ——Empirical Analysis Based on DEA-Tobit Model
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Population Mobility, Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Governance ——Empirical Analysis Based on DEA-Tobit Model
SHI Guifen1, LI Zhen2
1.School of Economics and Management, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117, China; 2.School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Abstract This paper uses the DEA model to measure and evaluate the government governance efficiency of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2004 to 2017, and applies the restricted Tobit model to conduct an empirical study on how population mobility and fiscal decentralization affect local government governance efficiency. The results show that although the overall efficiency of government governance has been on the rise in recent years, there are still certain efficiency losses and regional differences. The government governance efficiency in the western region is much lower than that of the central and eastern regions. Fiscal decentralization and inter-regional population mobility have a significant negative impact on the efficiency of local government governance. And this result is still valid in the robustness test of replacing variables, changing samples and lagging one period. Further heterogeneity analysis shows that the negative impact of population mobility and fiscal decentralization on local government governance efficiency is more pronounced in the western regions and population inflow regions. Therefore, combined with the government governance situation in various regions, we should optimize the scale of government input and structure, improve the living environment and quality of the floating population and enhance the level of local government governance.
SHI Guifen,LI Zhen. Population Mobility, Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Governance ——Empirical Analysis Based on DEA-Tobit Model. Economic Survey, 2021, 38(6): 0130.
2021, Vol. 38 
