Fiscal Decentralization and Environmental Pollution: A Spatial Analysis

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of variables.

Indicator	Variable	Average	Std.dev.	Min	Max
Environmental pollution index	EPI	2.004	0.683	0.595	4.408
Environmental regulation	ER	0.0268	0.0004	0.0075	0.1108
Fiscal decentralization measured by expenditure (%)	FD_exp	0.814	0.063	0.563	0.960
Fiscal decentralization measured by revenue (%)	FD_rev	0.471	0.113	0.245	0.856
Economic development (ten thousand yuan per person)	PGDP	1.002	0.602	−1.021	2.557
Industrial structure (%)	STR	0.426	0.062	0.283	0.805
Foreign direct investment (ten thousand yuan)	FDI	14.253	1.451	8.121	16.932
Urbanization (%)	CITY	0.507	0.114	0.226	0.896