关键词: 省直管县财政体制改革 , 民生性公共服务 , 医疗教育服务

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of province directly governing county (PGC) reform on livelihood public service based on countylevel data by using differenceindifferences propensity score matching approach. Our empirical results indicate that the PGC reform inhibits the improvement of counties livelihood public service. The PGC reform does not have an obvious impact on the number of medical beds per capital, but decrease the proportion of county governments  health expenditure to total expenditure significantly by 1167%.The reform also have a small negative effect on the ratio of primary and secondary students to total population and a significantly negative effect on the share of education expenditure, reducing the share by 419%. In addition, the results show that the PGC reform has heterogeneous effects between provinces and timelag effects.

Key words: province directly governing county (PGC) reform , livelihood public service , medical and educational service