Research on the Influence of Officials Economics Professional Background on Local Economy

Abstract

Local officials are not functional in production, but they can affect the economic development in their jurisdiction. To examine the data of officials of economics majors and non-economics majors, we used the double independent sample Mann-Whitney test method based on non-parametric statistics .We draw conclusions that officials with a economics background can better improve the development of economy than others; and local economic level and the degree of influence of officials’ economics background on the economic development is an inverted “U†nonlinear relationship.