北京邮电大学经济管理学院青年学者论坛第38期

题 目：Short-term Gains, Long-term Loss: Educational and Labor Market Outcomes of Agricultural Productivity Growth

主讲人：张川川  副教授、博士生导师

主持人：闫  强          教授、博士生导师、副院长

时 间： 2019年11月5日（周二）上午9：00-10：30

地 点：经管楼204会议室

报告内容简介：

This paper investigates how agricultural productivity growth affects education and labor market outcomes by exploiting a natural experiment, i.e., China's land reform in early 1980s. The land reform introduces the household responsibility system and rewards labor input in farming. We first show that the land reform increases agricultural production substantially. We then find that the land reform decreases significantly the likelihood of finishing high school among teenages. We find no similar effects in urban areas or for lower-level education. In addition, the effect of the land reform on high school completion is larger in areas that are less suitable for agricultural production or suffered more during China's Great Famine. Finally, we find that the land reform leads to a lower likelihood of being employed in the non-agricutural sector and less income about two decades later.  

主讲人简介：

张川川，中央财经大学经济学院副教授，院长助理，博士生导师，2013年博士毕业于北京大学国家发展研究院，获经济学博士学位，曾任哈佛大学经济系访问研究员和世界银行总行研究顾问。他的研究方向为公共经济学、健康经济学和劳动经济学，研究兴趣包括老龄问题和社会保障、健康状况的决定因素和影响、文化观念与经济行为、国际贸易与劳动力市场等。论文发表于Demography, Health Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics,《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《经济学季刊》等国内外期刊。

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