Huang Rui, Xiao Hao, Pan Guoqin
School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha 410006, China.
School of Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
Math Biosci Eng. 2022 Nov 23;19(12):14212-14231. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2022661.
Whether authority decentralization can strengthen the effort of local governments to reduce environmental pollution is theoretically and practically important. Based on a reform of delegating power of organizing marathon games from central to local governments in China, this paper finds that air quality during the days of marathon games improves significantly after decentralization. Such results pass a series of robustness checks. Moreover, we find that the improvement of air quality during marathon games after authority decentralization have close relationship with official promotion incentives, local political cycles and the career concerns of prefectural secretaries and mayors.
权力下放能否增强地方政府减少环境污染的力度在理论和实践上都具有重要意义。基于中国将马拉松赛事组织权从中央下放到地方政府的一项改革，本文发现权力下放后马拉松赛事期间的空气质量显著改善。这些结果通过了一系列稳健性检验。此外，我们发现权力下放后马拉松赛事期间空气质量的改善与官员晋升激励、地方政治周期以及地级市市委书记和市长的职业担忧密切相关。
