The Effect of Fiscal Transfers on Medical and Health Expenditures in Counties of Sichuan Province,China:A Positive Research Based on Data in 2007
Through constructing the econometric models which explain the expenditure effects of fiscal transfers and empirical testing based on the county level medical and health expenditures of Sichuan province of China in 2007, this research found that transfers had inducing effects on the absolute value of county level medical and health expenditures in Sichuan province.However, in terms of expenditure structure, the increase of transfers could not increase the ratio of medical and health expenditures to gross fiscal expenditures; on the contrary, they weakened the desire of regional governments to input; in other words, medical and health expenditures may be crowded-out by other expenditures.In sum, transfers only had a weak inducing effect on medical and health expenditures in Sichuan province.There exists large space to improve the incentive effects of transfers on the expenditure efforts of local governments themselves.Therefore, building an effective and transparent transfer system of medical and health expenditures, ensuring the specificity of the money and increasing punishments to the interception or misappropriation of funds will be the main goal for further reform.
Intergovernmental transfers Medical and health expenditures Inducing effects Crowding-out effect
ZHOU Mei-duo JIN Xiao-chi
School of Political Science and Public Administration,University of Electronic Science and Technolog Department of Sociology,Iowa State University,Ames,USA,IA 50010
国际会议
2013 International Conference on Public Administration (9th)(2013年第九届公共管理国际会议)
南非
英文
1031-1036
2013-10-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）