Assessing the Impact of Government Behavior on Regional High-Quality Development: A Case of Fiscal Expenditures on People’s Livelihoods in China

Guowei Wang, Dingqing Wang and Liang Zhang ()
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Guowei Wang: School of Marxism, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
Dingqing Wang: School of Economics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Liang Zhang: Physical Education College, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: Government fiscal support is an important way to improve social welfare and enhance the protection of people’s livelihood. This paper uses the entropy weight TOPSIS method, fixed effect model, two-stage least squares regression, moderating effect model, and mediating effect model to comparatively analyze the level of high-quality development of the region and explore the impact and mechanism of livelihood expenditures on the high-quality development of the region. The findings show that increasing government expenditures on people’s livelihoods can effectively improve regional high-quality development, but the degree of marginal improvement varies with different periods and locations. People’s livelihood expenditure could promote sustainable regional development by increasing the consumption level of residents. Urbanization could strengthen the positive effect of livelihood expenditure on regional high-quality development. This study enriches the theoretical research on institutional economics and explores the effect and role of government behavior in the process of high-quality development from the perspective of livelihood expenditure.

Keywords: high-quality development; government behavior; fiscal expenditures on people’s livelihoods; consumption level; urbanization; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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