How Could Higher Education Promote Urban-rural Income Balance——An Explanatory Account Based on Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Chinese Provinces
Taking 31 provincial-level regions in China as cases,using the fuzzy-set quali-tative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method,this study reveals multiple configurations of conditions that lead to different levels of urban-rural income balance and their optimization paths.The study shows that the conditions are combinatorial,the paths are diverse,and the mechanisms are highly contextualized.The study reveals three paths as"all-element driven","human capital-technology empowerment",and"scale effect-driven".We should construct diversified paths for the development of higher education,fully leverage its role in cumula-ting human capital,promoting technological innovation,and achieving educational equity,and create a higher education ecosystem that fits with regional developmental stages and re-source endowments.
higher educationurban-rural income dividecommon prosperity
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