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cyc123@u.washington.edu
Major
Economics, University of Washington
Research summary
I am looking at the state of education in Sichuan and whether it is correlated with the budgetary state of local governments. Within Sichuan, all levels of government are having difficulty raising the revenue to pay for public infrastructure. Any cutbacks on education funding, in efforts to mitigate government debt, could have huge consequences on the quality and availability of local schools, especially in rural areas. The questions I hope to answer are: Are education indicators correlated with the budgetary state of local governments? Are rural schools more dependent on the local government than those in urban areas? How are schools compensating for decreased funding?
My hypothesis is that local infrastructure and development are very dependent on the fiscal state of the government. I believe I will find that within poor rural areas there are less means of outside funding, and therefore decentralization and budget reforms have negatively impacted the local education infrastructure. In contrast, more urban and wealthy townships are able to mitigate decreasing government funding by finding outside sources of revenue. Therefore, the state of their infrastructure is less dependent on the budgetary state of the local government. (Dec 2005)
Awards
Mary Gates Research Grant 2005
Kitsap County Alumni Award 2005
Alberta Corkery Economics 2005
Mary Gates Honors Scholar 2003
