Since the 1990s, China has pushed forward the province-managing-county (PMC) reform in some provinces as an experiment of fiscal decentralization. The reform provides a good opportunity to examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on fiscal behaviors of local governments in China. Using a...

This paper investigates the impact of a public school nutrition program on household education expenditure from a novel perspective of the intra-household flypaper effect (IFE). In theory, public feeding programs not only improve children's health but also increase the future return on their...