上海大学经济学院
学术论坛第129期，总第304期

演讲人：范子英 教授 （上海财经大学公共管理学院）
时 间：2018年5月7日（周一）10:00-11:30
地 点：上海大学宝山校区（东区）经管大楼567会议室
演讲题目：Arrival of Young Talent: Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China
主 办：上海大学经济学院
上海大学经济学院青联会

学术报告简介
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.

演讲人简介
范子英，上海财经大学公共经济与管理学院教授，博士生导师，中国公共财政研究院副院长，研究领域为公共财政和发展经济学，在《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》等期刊发表论文40余篇，2016年入选教育部长江学者（青年学者）和上海市曙光学者计划。