关键词: 人口, 省直管县, 公共品, 拥挤函数, 面板数据

Abstract: Based on the local public goods supply model, this paper empirically verifies the impact of population size and “province directly leading the counties” on local public goods supply. The empirical results are as follows: the model based on the congestion function of Bordherding-Deacon constant elasticity effectively depicts the local public goods supply; the “scale effect” led by population growth outweighs its “congestion effect”; the price elasticity of public goods demand is positive in counties, price mechanism is failure; nevertheless in cities the price elasticity is negative, and the price mechanism is effectual to a certain extent; in cities and counties, the demand for quality to local public goods demand is elastic to income, which is in consistent with the Wagner’s law; higher-level financial subsidy is not obvious in improving local public goods.

Key words: Population, Province directly leading the counties, Public goods, Congestion function, Panel data