政府公共文化支出对代际收入流动的影响OACHSSCD

Based on the data of 2012-2020 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this paper em-pirically analyzes the impact of government public cultural expenditures on intergenerational in-come mobility and its mechanism of action.It is found that government public cultural expendi-ture significantly enhances intergenerational income mobility.The effects of government public cultural expenditures on intergenerational income mobility are more significant among females,rural residents,residents in the central and western regions,as well as groups with low parental income,low parental education,and non-only-child families.Further mechanism analysis shows that government public cultural expenditures promote intergenerational income mobility through three channels:improving human capital,upgrading social capital,and fostering spiritual capital,mainly in terms of intervening in the accumulation of human capital for health and education,en-hancing social networks,and increasing individual effort.Therefore,we should continue to ex-pand the scale of fiscal public cultural expenditure,optimize the structure of government public cultural expenditure,and accelerate the construction of a modern public cultural service system,thereby promoting intergenerational income mobility.