Board #47 - Bridging the Region, Dividing the Local: The Distributive Paradox of Central Fiscal Transfers in China

• In Event: 75-310 - Poster Session: The Role of State Policies in Encouraging Economic Development

Brief Overview

Using the Great Western Development strategy as a quasi-experiment, our geographic RDD reveals that transfers narrowed the West-Central gap but inadvertently widened urban-rural inequality driven by local governments' strategic urban bias.

Author

• Ruoxi Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University