Research on the impact of university enrollment expansion on the distribution gap of residents′ income in China: the empirical analysis based on interprovincial panel data from 1999 to 2018
FAN Xiaoting1, CHEN Xinshuang1, ZHANG Ning2
(1.School of Economics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China;2. Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago, Chicago 60601, USA)
Abstract：This research is an empirical analysis on the impact of university enrollment expansion on the distribution gap of residents′ income, selecting panel data from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (not including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in China from 1999 to 2018 for threshold regression estimation. It is found that college enrollment expansion has a significant effect on narrowing the income distribution gap, and it has a distinctive threshold feature. The impact also has the economic threshold effect and technical threshold effect. The more advanced economic development is, the stronger the effect of university enrollment expansion on narrowing the income distribution gap is; as technology improves, the effect of university enrollment expansion to alleviate the income distribution gap turns from strong to weak. Based on this, it is proposed to adopt the policy of enlarging enrollment of universities in different regions corresponding to local conditions, to strengthen the role of developed regions in driving underdeveloped regions, and to speed up the cultivation of highlevel applicationoriented talents to meet the needs of technological progress for highlevel talents, so as to better promote higher education and social and economic development and give full play to the role of human capital in higher education in promoting fairness in the income distribution in China.
范晓婷，陈昕爽，张宁. 高校扩招对我国居民收入分配差距的影响研究——基于1999—2018年省际面板数据的实证分析[J]. 高校教育管理, 2020, 14(3): 73-82.
FAN Xiaoting, CHEN Xinshuang, ZHANG Ning. Research on the impact of university enrollment expansion on the distribution gap of residents′ income in China: the empirical analysis based on interprovincial panel data from 1999 to 2018. Journal of Higher Education Management, 2020, 14(3): 73-82.
2020, Vol. 14 
