厦门大学邹至庄经济研究院宏观经济研究中心

“宏观与发展经济学前沿讲座”

（第2期）

报告题目

Emigration, Fiscal Spillovers, and Public Education Spending on Rural Schools

主讲嘉宾

张磊 博士

上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院 教授

报告摘要

This paper investigates how emigration of rural laborers affects public education spending on rural schools in the sending regions in China. To organize the empirical analyses, we construct a theoretical model of local government spending decision-making. The model captures two types of externalities of local public education spending. One is the traditional externality due to the emigration of locally educated laborers; the other is the fiscal externality because emigrants leave their children behind to receive basic education in the hometown. The model predicts that with moderate restrictions on parameter values, per student spending on public schools in the sending regions decreases with emigration rate, and the negative relationship is stronger when more children are left behind. We test these hypotheses combining data generated from the Population Censuses and City Statistics Yearbooks. We confirm these hypotheses using both an OLS estimator and an IV estimator with a Bartik-style instrumental variable. The estimation results are robust to various measures of emigration rate and education spending and to controlling for contemporaneous policy changes.

报告时间

2022年11月16日（周三），16:40-18:00

地 点

经济楼N203、线上腾讯会议