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Welfare Effects of Township Consolidation Policies in Shrinking Counties: Intergenerational Heterogeneity and Public Service Accessibility

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  • Siyuan Liu

    (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

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The policy of removing townships and merging towns is an important administrative means for China to cope with the population contraction of counties, but its impact on the welfare of residents still lacks a systematic assessment. This study takes the contracted county area where the evacuation of townships and towns was implemented from 2005 to 2020 as the research object. Using county-level panel data and public service facility spatial data, the double difference (DID) method is used to evaluate the causal effect of the withdrawal policy on the accessibility of residents’ public services, and focuses on intergenerational heterogeneity. The study found that the withdrawal policy generally significantly reduced the accessibility of residents’ public services (ATT = -0.34, p

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  • Siyuan Liu, 2026. "Welfare Effects of Township Consolidation Policies in Shrinking Counties: Intergenerational Heterogeneity and Public Service Accessibility," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6239-699-9_62
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-699-9_62
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