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Spatial spillover of local general higher education expenditures on sustainable regional economic growth: A spatial econometric analysis

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  • Congying Ma
  • Hongchao Wu
  • Xiuhong Li

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The ability of fair investments in local general higher education to drive sustainable regional economic growth is explored. Based on spatial theory, the exploratory spatial data analysis method is used to examine the spatial characteristics of local general higher education expenditures in China’s 30 provinces from 2000 to 2021. The spatial Durbin model is employed to analyze the impact of education expenditures on regional economic growth. The results reveal that education expenditures had positive spatial autocorrelation. Education expenditures promoted regional economic growth, and the long-term effect was greater than the short-term effect. These expenditures also had a positive spillover effect, showing that strategic spatial interactions between provinces positively influence growth. The positive spillover effects nationwide and in the eastern region were significantly greater than the direct effect, whereas the spillover effects in both the middle and western regions were negative.

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  • Congying Ma & Hongchao Wu & Xiuhong Li, 2023. "Spatial spillover of local general higher education expenditures on sustainable regional economic growth: A spatial econometric analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(11), pages 1-18, November.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292781
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