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. 2026 Jan 23;26:635. doi: 10.1186/s12889-026-26195-w

Table 5.

Heterogeneous analysis

Variables (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
East Central and West Large income gap Small income gap High fiscal expenditure ratio Low fiscal expenditure ratio
Integration -0.002 -0.010** -0.012** -0.005 -0.019*** -0.008*
(0.006) (0.004) (0.006) (0.005) (0.005) (0.004)
Economic development 0.017 -0.010 -0.050 0.056** -0.105*** 0.145***
(0.050) (0.030) (0.037) (0.022) (0.037) (0.031)
Industrial structure -0.005 -0.002 -0.002 -0.002 0.003* -0.001
(0.007) (0.002) (0.002) (0.001) (0.002) (0.003)
Human capital 2.203** 0.358 1.501* -0.671 -0.321 0.881
(0.918) (1.174) (0.906) (0.921) (1.234) (0.978)
Fiscal expenditure ratio -0.371** -0.033 -0.229** -0.097 -0.105 -0.207
(0.175) (0.073) (0.094) (0.068) (0.074) (0.183)
Opening‒up 0.047 -0.092 -0.309** 0.159** -0.232*** 0.317***
(0.144) (0.061) (0.124) (0.0r64) (0.085) (0.113)
Financial development -0.022 0.007 0.011 0.014 -0.001 0.039*
(0.034) (0.017) (0.026) (0.015) (0.025) (0.021)
Constant 2.051*** 2.489*** 3.212*** 1.409*** 3.636*** 0.516
(0.632) (0.352) (0.432) (0.257) (0.424) (0.384)
City fixed effect Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Time fixed effect Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Observations 476 1,503 983 983 972 983
R-squared 0.989 0.985 0.977 0.972 0.991 0.985

The values in parentheses represent clustered robust standard errors, with, *, **and *** indicating significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively