讲座题目：The Long-Run Impacts of Place-based Poverty Alleviation: Human Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance 扶贫的长期影响:人力资本投资和劳动力市场绩效

主讲人：吴明琴 华南师范大学经济与管理学院 教授

时间：5月15日9:30

地点：经管院A204

讲座摘要：

This paper investigates the long-run economic consequences of a place-based poverty alleviation program in China on individuals' human capital investment and labor market performance. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find a strong, positive causal relationship between poverty alleviation and education, especially for middle school. This is caused by the increases in rural household income and public expenditures on education. Meanwhile, there is a negative causal relationship between poverty alleviation and high school due to opportunity cost and local labor demand shock. Labor market performance, in terms of labor participation and occupation quality, has also been improved by the poverty alleviation program. Finally, we find strong heterogeneous effects across gender and that women's education and labor market performance is enhanced to a larger extent. This paper generates important policy implications in achieving gender equality and human capital accumulation in developing countries.

本文研究了我国扶贫计划对个人人力资本投资和劳动力市场表现的长期经济影响。基于断点回归模型，我们发现扶贫与教育之间存在强有力的正向因果关系，尤其是对初中而言。这是由于农村家庭收入和公共教育支出增加造成的。同时，由于教育的机会成本和当地劳动力需求冲击的影响，扶贫和高中之间存在负向因果关系。个体在劳动市场参与和就业质量方面也因扶贫而得到改善。最后，我们发现存在性别差异效应，女性的教育和劳动力市场表现在更大程度上得到了提高。本文对发展中国家实现性别平等和人力资本积累有一定的政策含义。

主讲人简介：

吴明琴，华南师范大学经济与管理学院教授，经济研究所所长。研究方向为发展经济学和公共经济学。研究兴趣集中在创新、环境保护、区域和劳动力市场等方向，在《经济研究》、《Journal of Development Economics》、《Journal of Environmental Economics and Management》等期刊发表论文多篇。主持国家自然科学基金和多项省部级课题。研究成果曾获福建省社会科学二等奖。