地方官员推动了城镇化吗？--基于江西省地级市的经验证据

在我国现行政绩观和相关制度背景下，地方官员对城镇化发展会存在独特的“偏好”，并在城镇化进程中经常扮演重要的角色，因此地方官员是理解城镇化快速发展的重要一环。本文结合江西省地级市的经验数据，运用倍差法实证分析并定量提取市长和市委书记对辖区城镇化的净影响，发现地方官员对当前城镇化发展具有显著的正相关关系，进而论证了地方官员推动了城镇化发展的假说。

Do Local Officials Promote the Urbanization---Evidence from the Prefecture-level Cities in Jiangxi

Under the background of the current political achievement concept and related institutions in China, local offi-cials have a special preference for urbanization and play a very significant and important role in the process of urbanization. They are the important node of understanding the rapid urbanization.With the empirical data of prefecture-level cities in Jian-gxi province, this article uses DID to extract quantitatively the net effect of the mayors and party secretaries on urbanization. The empirical analysis shows that local officials have significant positive effects on the development of urbanization.