Impact of the Expansion of Graduate Education on Rural Revitalization:Spatial Spillovers and Threshold Effects
Postgraduate education empowers rural revitalization,which is the mission of postgraduate education in the new era.It also means solving the problems of agriculture,rural areas,and farmers and realizing agricultural and rural modernization.The rural revitalization index was constructed based on the panel data of 31 provinces from 2011 to 2020,and the fixed effects model,spatial econometric model,and panel threshold model were used to empirically examine the impact of the expansion of the postgraduate education scale on rural revitalization.The results show that the expansion of postgraduate education in China significantly promotes rural revitalization.This result still holds after robustness testing and endogeneity treatment;the spatial effect shows that expanding postgraduate education can break through spatial constraints and produce a divergent effect,showing a significant positive spatial spillover effect on rural revitalization in surrounding areas.The threshold effect shows a non-monotonic and non-linear relationship between the scale of graduate education and rural revitalization.That is,as the scale of graduate education gradually crosses two thresholds,its empowering effect on rural revitalization shows the characteristics of marginal decline followed by rebound.The expansion of the postgraduate education scale promotes rural revitalization with significant multidimensional heterogeneity,mainly reflected in the sub-dimensions of rural revitalization,postgraduate academic level,and regional education level.Based on this,it is recommended to improve the quality and efficiency of rural revitalization by exploring the long-term training mechanism of industry-education integration,comprehensively carrying out rural digital imaging,expanding the scale of postgraduate education according to local conditions,and accelerating the layout of emerging agriculture-related majors.
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维普
