Research on Differences of Fairness of Educational Resource Allocation between Urban and Rural Areas in China

摘要

After constructing the urban and rural compulsory education fairness index, the authors calculate the urban and rural compulsory education fairness index scores of 31 regions from 2010 to 2014 to study the differences of fairness of urban-rural educational resource allocation. The results show that most provinces make a great step forward in urban and rural compulsory education equity, but the regional difference is still prominent. We also discuss the two main determinants of it, urban and rural economic development gap and provincial fiscal system, it comes to conclusion that provincial fiscal decentralization plays the most important role in regional difference in urban and rural compulsory education fairness.