【主题】Informal Institution Meets Child Development: Clan Culture and Child Labor in China
【报告人】赵忠（中国人民大学）
【时间】2021年5月13日（星期四）下午2:00
【地点】上海财经大学高等研究院楼108室
【摘要】Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper makes the first attempt to explore the influences of clan culture which was a hallmark culture in Chinese history on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture can significantly reduce the incidence of child labor, but clan culture exhibits strong boy bias. The results are driven by boys rather than girls, which reflect its patrilineal nature. Moreover, the impact is stronger for boys from households with lower socioeconomic status and in rural areas. Clan culture reduces the incidence of child labor through risk sharing and easing financial constraints, and helps form social norms to promote human capital investment. Specifically, clan culture can partly offset the exogenous negative shocks and increase the probability of getting aids, especially financial support, for a father of boy in the face of predicaments, and clan culture has increased study time and household educational expenditure for boys. Our results are robust to alternative measures of clan culture, model specifications, and sample selections.
嘉宾简介
赵忠，教育部重要人才计划特聘教授，中国人民大学“杰出学者”特聘教授、博士生导师，中国人民大学劳动人事学院副院长、国发院劳动力市场研究中心主任，Journal of Population Economics期刊和China & World Economy期刊副主编。研究领域涉及劳动力市场、技术进步与就业、城乡移民、收入分配、社会保障、医疗与健康、微观计量经济学等。
