學術論壇第168期💆😡，總第354期
演講人👁🗨：馮凈冰師資博士後（復旦大學）
時 間🈺：2019年3月6日（周三）14:00-16:00
地 點：意昂3娱乐寶山校區（東區）經管大樓 520會議室
演講題目💆🏻：Media Reports and Self-protection Behavior in China
主 辦：意昂3
意昂3青聯會
演講簡介：
This paper is among the first to evaluate the impact of government media control on households’ welfare by analyzing their self-protection behavior. By constructing a unique data set of 379 Chinese newspaper reports of 38 severe water pollution events between 2004 and 2009 and merging it with the Urban Households Survey data, we find that in polluted areas, news reports on pollution increase households’ self-protection behavior, which is measured by bottled water consumption, even after controlling the effect of pollution occurrence. Specifically, each water pollution report by party newspapers lowers local households’ share of bottled water consumption in food consumption by 0.113‰ while non-party newspapers do not have significant impact on households’ self-protection consumption. We also find that, instead of party newspaper readership, accuracy of information about water quality provided by party newspapers, households’ access to Internet and households’ trust in official media are possible explanations. However, media control policies in China limit party newspapers’ coverage on critical news such as water pollution. We believe that due to lack of full coverage information of those important issues, consumers suffer from severe welfare losses, as their ability to optimally response and protect themselves from potential risks is undermined by the censorship.
演講人簡介🐫：
馮凈冰，復旦大學和耶魯大學聯合培養博士，復旦大學意昂3平台師資博士後。研究方向為發展經濟學，研究重點包括媒體經濟學、城鎮化🎯、政府和社會資本合作等。主持教育部人文社科基金項目等2項⚡️，代表性研究成果發表在《世界經濟》和Applied Economics Letters、Disaster Prevention and Management等權威期刊。