Municipal amalgamations and the quality of public services: A study based on city-county mergers in China

• Zijun Mao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Urban Economics and Public Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China

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• Deqi Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Urban Economics and Public Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China

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• Guoping Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guoping@cdi.org.cn

  Affiliation China Development Institute, Shenzhen, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1383-3995

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