Abstract:

In recent years, China has been actively implementing the policy of “Villages Merging", and this paper is to explore the impact of this policy on rural basic education. Based on the manual identification of county statistical data, this paper constructs the applicable conditions for staggered DID. It is found that the Villages Merging has a positive effect on the improvement of rural basic education, and the greater the intensity of Village Merging, the more pronounced this effect is. In the counties with complex terrain, high elevation and steep slope, the effect on education is more prominent. The influence mechanism is that the policy reduces the outflow of rural population and increases farmers' income to improve the level of basic education. In addition, the effect of Village Merging on education will not disappear over time. This paper argues that taking the opportunity of Village Merging to promote the optimization of rural spatial layout is the key to realizing the take-off of rural basic education, and the government needs to introduce a series of measures and systems to ensure equity in education and boost rural revitalization.

Key words:

village merging, rural basic education, staggered DID, population loss