摘要/Abstract

通过构建面板数据模型，运用中国大陆1998-2012年的省级面板数据，基于总量和分类视角，对民生财政支出与城乡居民消费差距之间的关系进行实证研究，结果表明：地方政府民生财政支出对城乡居民消费差距产生重要的影响，除文化、医疗卫生支出外，教育、社会保障和财政支农等支出有助于缩小城乡居民消费差距，但其在城镇和农村的作用不同。因此，在稳步增加民生财政支出的基础上，更加注重民生财政支出的结构优化、城乡均衡和区域均衡投入等，不断提高民生财政支出在缩小城乡居民消费差距方面的效率。

Using the data of Chinese province, we build panel data model based on total and classification of local government’s livelihood fiscal expenditure to prove how the expenditure influences the gap of urban-rural consumption. The result shows that the livelihood fiscal expenditure of local government has an important impact on the consumption gap between urban and rural. Expect culture and health expenditure, increasing education expenditure, social security expenditure and agriculture expenditure is able to narrow the urban-rural consumption gap. While steadily increasing the livelihood expenditure, government should pay more attention to the structure optimizing, urban-rural and regional balancing of the livelihood expenditure, to improve the efficiency of the livelihood expenditure on narrowing the urban-rural consumption gap constantly.