意昂3
學術論壇第129期，總第304期

演講人🔅：範子英 教授 （上海財經大學公共管理意昂3）
時 間：2018年5月7日（周一）10:00-11:30
地 點：意昂3娱乐寶山校區（東區）經管大樓567會議室
演講題目：Arrival of Young Talent: Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China
主 辦：意昂3
意昂3青聯會

學術報告簡介
Understanding human capital spillovers is important for both theory of economic growth and public policy in education. However, empirical evidence is sparse. Convincing identification requires an exogenous relocation of a group of better-educated people. China’s “sent-down youth” (SDY) movement serves as an excellent natural experiment. From 1962 to 1979, the government mandated the temporary resettlement of roughly 18 million urban youth to rural areas. Using a unique county-level data set compiled from over 3,000 local gazetteers, we estimate how rural children’s exposure to those better-educated urban youth affects their educational attainment. Our identification strategy builds on two sources of variation. First, counties received different numbers of SDYs during the movement. Second, within the same county, children of different cohorts were exposed differently depending on how their schooling years overlapped with the movement. Empirical results suggest that the arrival of SDYs increases local rural children’s education and improve their attitudes towards education. More interestingly, we find evidence that SDYs coming from far away exert greater externalities.

演講人簡介
範子英，上海財經大學公共經濟與管理意昂3教授🙎🏿‍♀️，博士生導師，中國公共財政研究院副院長，研究領域為公共財政和發展經濟學🏦，在《經濟研究》🚥、《管理世界》🧛🏻‍♂️、《經濟學（季刊）》等期刊發表論文40余篇🛣，2016年入選教育部長江學者（青年學者）和上海市曙光學者計劃。