DOI: 10.7664/CHE20180604
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Health Expenditure: Empirical Analysis Based on Different Caliber Indicators and Provincial Panel Data
NING Xiao-hua
ZHANG Ju-ying
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.
Keywords：fiscal decentralizationlocal public health expenditureempirical analysis
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 16-20 )