The Division of Responsibilities and Grassroots Environmental Governance:Evidence from the"County-Power-Expansion"Reform
The division of responsibilities is the main contradiction in the current reform of China's sub-provincial fis-cal system and the key to improving the effectiveness of local government governance.However,the relationship between the division of responsibilities and environmental governance has not been clarified yet.In this paper,we study the effect of"em-powerment and strengthening of counties"reform on environmental pollution.Based on county-level panel data from 2000 to 2010 and the DID method,we find that the increase in local management responsibilities exacerbates environmental pollution:industrial emissions in the reformed counties increased by 2.612 billion standard cubic meters,which is 33.86％of the sample average.In terms of the mechanism,we find that the reform mainly affects environmental pollution in the jurisdictions through two aspects:intensifying environmental pollution generation and hindering the governance of environmental pollution.
division of government responsibilitiesenvironmental pollutiongovernment governance
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