Local Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Disparity Across Chinese Cities

This chapter attempts to investigate the impact of intra-city government structure on within-city fiscal disparity across Chinese cities. We focus on fiscal disparity because local governments’ fiscal capacities affect their ability to provide public services, and disparity in public service accessibility increases income inequality. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.