Table 5 Heterogeneity test based on economic situation.

From: Driving effect of government environmental protection expenditure on green technology from the perspective of fiscal transparency

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Variables

High per capita GDP

Low per capita GDP

Municipalities or capitals

Prefecture-level cities

\(\mathrm{ln}{envi}\)

0.415*

(1.82)

0.109

(1.37)

0.552**

(2.01)

0.108

(1.32)

\(\mathrm{ln}{fiscal}\)

0.345

(1.28)

0.261

(1.60)

0.362

(1.45)

0.235

(1.49)

\(\mathrm{ln}{envi}* \mathrm{ln}{fiscal}\)

0.894***

(3.36)

0.274

(1.08)

1.113**

(2.20)

0.126

(0.79)

Control variable

YES

YES

YES

YES

City effect

YES

YES

YES

YES

Year effect

YES

YES

YES

YES

Observations

889

889

210

1568

R-squared

0.626

0.631

0.647

0.582

  1. Note: t-values are in brackets, ***, **, and * indicate significant at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
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