讲座题目：The Impact of Historic Rice Farming on Contemporary Cooperative Behavior: Evidence from China

报告人：葛苏勤

报告时间：2021年7月13日上午8:30

报告地点：腾讯会议282 895 958

主办单位：武汉大学经济与管理学院经济学系

主持人：胡晖

内容摘要：This study investigates how historic rice farming affects contemporary cooperative behavior. We exploit a discontinuity in rice farming generated by a natural geographic boundary in China to facilitate identification. Our results indicate that historic rice farming has a significant positive impact on cooperative behavior today. An increase in the percentage of farmland devoted to rice farming significantly increases the frequency of mutual help in terms of borrowing and lending money, caring for each other's family members, and helping each other with job seeking and house construction. We show that irrigation network and labor exchange associated with rice farming are likely potential mechanisms that have produced cultural preferences for cooperation in rice farming regions.

主讲人简介：葛苏勤，弗吉尼亚理工大学（Virginia Tech）终身教授，主要研究领域为劳动经济学、中国经济以及应用微观经济学，研究领域包括教育、劳动供给、工资结构、歧视和迁徙。她的论文在Journal of Labor Economics，Journal of the European Economic Association，Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization，European Economic Review，Journal of Applied Econometrics等期刊上发表。她目前兼任China Economic Review期刊编缉，其研究工作得到了美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、美国劳工部和香港研究资助局的资助，并受到《大西洋》、《华盛顿邮报》和彭博社等媒体的关注。2015年，被授予美国劳工部学者。