Regional climate risks and government education expenditure: evidence from China
Peiqi Gao,
Yinghan Rong,
Yu Cao
et al.
Abstract:Faced with the impact of climate risks, what responses do local governments make, particularly in the domain of social public policy? This study uses provincial panel data from China from 2009 to 2020 to investigate how climate risks affect local government education expenditure and its mechanisms. Analysis using spatial econometric models reveals the following. First, local climate risks significantly increase government education expenditure. This conclusion remains consistent across different proxy variable… Show more
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