Abstract
The 'long tail' nature of rural special education (RSE) suggests that it simultaneously possesses the private nature of discreteness and the public nature of externalities, which can easily cause provision insufficiency. However, this mismatch may have a dynamic intertemporal correction mechanism impacted by different expenditures of supply sectors (governments and other social sectors). This paper uses different models and data from 30 provinces in China from 2003-2014 to analyze this dynamic correction mechanism. This research finds that different kinds of expenditures from different suppliers have divergent effects on this correction. Capital expenses (especially infrastructure construction) have significantly positive effects on the correction, but administrative expenses have significant dual effects on the correction. These effects may be caused by the various governance efficiencies and motivations of all stakeholders in RSE. This paper concludes that we should pay more attention to the accurate recognition and effective satisfaction of RSE affected by the governance efficiency and motivation of different suppliers to achieve this dynamic correction.
Highlights
Rural special education (RSE), which is customized to physically or mentally disabled children with heterogeneous demands, constitutes a significant financial commitment and is an important issue for policy and research planning in rural areas [1]
While we leave a thorough evaluation of divergent marginal effects and correction indicators of different RSE expenditures for future work on the premise that all RSE demands are real and reasonable, our results show that these demands deserve consideration, both for forecasting and for understanding how this dynamic disequilibrium achieves self-correction in periods of time fluctuations
The explanatory model and theories developed in this paper are convincing since they were replicated in different subtypes of RSE with different measuring methods and mediation effects
Summary
Rural special education (RSE), which is customized to physically or mentally disabled children with heterogeneous demands, constitutes a significant financial commitment and is an important issue for policy and research planning in rural areas [1]. To understand the intrinsic nature of RSE as the drive to cause supply insufficiency and mismatch, we borrow the concept of the ‘long tail’ from the field of business management and apply it to comprehending the underlying motivation mechanism of different RSE actors in correcting the mismatch As this recent tradition has evolved, the focus has been less on the interaction and mediation of RSE with other education categories, especially general basic education and vocational education, to predict mutual or divergent developmental trends based on the analysis that all of these education categories share institutional environments, economic levels and some demographic variables.
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