Will assessment and Incentives Help Improve the Level of Urban Public Services?
Empirical Evidence from the Selection of “Civilized Cities”
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.004How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- civilized city, urban basic public service level, double difference
- Abstract
The creation of a “civilized city” is an important measure to realize the simultaneous development of urban material civilization and spiritual civilization, promote the innovation of urban management mode, and realize the sustainable development of the city. Enhancing the happiness of urban residents, improving the basic public level of the city, and making urban life more convenient and quality is one of its main goals. Based on the panel data of 102 prefecture-level and above major cities across the country from 2009 to 2017, this paper uses the PSM-DID method to comprehensively examine the characteristics of the impact of the selection of “civilized cities” on the improvement of urban public services and its mechanism. The research results show that the selection of “civilized cities” can effectively improve the level of urban public services; it mainly improves the level of urban basic public services by changing the structure of local government fiscal expenditures and affecting land prices; the scale of urban population and economic scale affects the above-mentioned Policy effects have significant heterogeneous effects. This article provides empirical support for the selection of “civilized cities” to effectively improve the level of urban basic public services, and provides ideas for further innovation in urban management models.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hang Xiao PY - 2021 DA - 2021/08/09 TI - Will assessment and Incentives Help Improve the Level of Urban Public Services? BT - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 17 EP - 21 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.004 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.004 ID - Xiao2021 ER -