The Impact of Education Investment on Regional Poverty Alleviation, Dynamic Constraints, and Marginal Benefits: A Case Study of Yunnan’s Poor Counties

Xiaowen Xie (), Saran Sarntisart () and Md. Nasir Uddin
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Xiaowen Xie: Graduate School of Development Economics, National Institute of Development Administration, 148 Serithai Road, Bangkok 10240, Thailand
Saran Sarntisart: Graduate School of Development Economics, National Institute of Development Administration, 148 Serithai Road, Bangkok 10240, Thailand
Md. Nasir Uddin: Department of Economics, American International University-Bangladesh, 408/1, Kuratoli, Khilkhet, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh

Economies, 2023, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: This paper studied the impact of education investment on regional poverty alleviation of Yunnan’s poor counties, especially the dynamic constraints and marginal benefits of education input. This paper takes 30 poor counties in Yunnan province from 2007 to 2020 as the research object. A double fixed effect model, a systematic GMM model, and a quantile regression model are used to study the effect of education investment on regional poverty alleviation from static and dynamic levels. The results show that education investment has a significant positive effect on regional poverty alleviation at both static and dynamic levels. At the same time, under different poverty levels, the effect of education investment on poverty alleviation shows a law of diminishing marginal effect. As for the current situation of poor counties in Yunnan Province, the effect of education investment on poverty alleviation is increasing at a decreasing rate. The research object of this paper has achieved the goal of getting rid of absolute poverty, so the conclusion of this paper has more reference value.

Keywords: regional poverty alleviation; education investment; diminishing marginal benefits; system GMM model; dynamic constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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