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Regional favouritism and education development
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 ScienceVolume
9Pagination
302-319ISSN
2168-1376Department/School
Australian Institute of Health Service Management (AIHSM)Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
© 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.Repository Status
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