【主题】Short-term Gains, Long-term Loss: Unintended Consequences of China’s Land Reform on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
【报告人】张川川（浙江大学经济学院百人计划研究员、博导）
【时间】4月27日（星期二）2:00-3:30 p.m.
【地点】上海财经大学高等研究院楼232室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Studies find that land reform increases investment and household welfare through improving private rights protection. However, the literature overlooks the fact that land reform may decrease human capital investment because of the opportunity cost of time. Exploiting the county-by-county rollout of China’s land reform during 1978-1984, we show that land reform significantly decreases the likelihood of completing high school among rural children aged
13-17. Children switch out of school into farm work when the return to farming increase. We find no evidence that land reform decreases human capital investment before age 13. Approximately two decades later, children induced to engage in farm work are less likely to work in the nonagricultural sector and earn less than they would have had they stayed in school longer.
【嘉宾介绍】张川川，现任浙江大学经济学院百人计划研究员（A1类）、博士生导师。他2013年7月毕业于北京大学国家发展研究院，获经济学博士学位，2011-2012年于哈佛大学经济系和世界银行总部访学，2013年7月-2015年10月担任中央财经大学经济学院讲师，2015年11月破格晋升副教授，2020年10月起任职于浙江大学经济学院。他的研究兴趣为人口老龄化和社会保障、健康状况的决定因素及其影响、国际贸易与劳动力市场、文化与经济行为等。他的研究成果发表于《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《经济学季刊》，American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Demography, Health Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics等国内外期刊。研究成果曾获北京市哲学社会科学优秀成果奖一等奖、湖北省哲学社会科学优秀成果奖三等奖和《金融研究》年度最佳论文奖等奖项。
