کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5087286 1478256 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does economic growth affect urbanization? New evidence from China and the Chinese National Congress
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا رشد اقتصادی بر شهرت تاثیر می گذارد؟ شواهد جدید از چین و کنگره ملی چین
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Whether growth affects urbanization is a debatable topic among researchers today.
- We study this issue for the case of China, understanding that growth is endogenous.
- We construct IVs using the timing of the National Congress of the Communist Party.
- Our 2SLS estimates show that growth can cause urbanization.

Using a panel of Chinese provinces during 1985-2008, we propose an estimation strategy to study the within-province effect that per capita GDP growth may have on the urbanization rate. Our approach exploits the timing of the National Congress of the Communist Party, which is a 5-yearly meeting where national economic policies are debated. Because economic growth is a key policy objective and given that the Chinese fiscal system is highly decentralized, the recurring National Congress may encourage a systematic pattern of spending by provincial governments to foster growth. We find that per capita GDP growth is associated with the timing of the National Congress, and exploiting instrumental variables that convey this timing information, we also find that growth has a statistically significant effect on the urbanization rate.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Asian Economics - Volume 36, February 2015, Pages 62-71
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