♦ 主讲人
石雪竹（对外经济贸易大学保险学院助理教授）
♦ 主持老师
（经院）袁野，（国发院）雷晓燕
♦ 参与老师
（经院）秦雪征、王耀璟、石菊，（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、张丹丹
♦ 题目
The Role of Social Norms in Old-age Support:Evidence from China
♦ 时间
10月14日（周三）10：00-11：30
♦ 地点
北京大学国家发展研究院万众楼一层大教室
报告摘要
Intergenerational old-age support within families is an important norm in developing countries, which typically lack comprehensive pension coverage. The transmission mechanism for this norm is potentially influenced by socioeconomic factors internal and external to the family, which the norm may in turn influence. This paper studies the inter-generational transmission of this social norm in China, focusing on the role of gender. The mechanism behind this transmission is that parents, by their provision of support to their elderly parents, shape their same-gender children's preference for future old-age support. Given that the gender ratio of Chinese children is not random, I use an interaction term of the timing of the ban on sex-selective abortions in China and the gender of the first-born child as the instrumental variable for the gender of the children to alleviate the possible endogeneity. The empirical results, using two Chinese datasets, show that parents with more same-gender children provide more support to their ageing parents than parents with more cross-gender ones, controlling for their household size. The father effect is more significant in rural subsamples, and the mother effect is mainly seen in the urban ones. The urban-rural difference in the results may indicate a normative shift accompanying economic and demographic changes.
主讲人简介
石雪竹，对外经济贸易大学保险学院助理教授。2020年博士毕业于英国伦敦政治经济学院，获得经济学博士学位。她的研究方向为公共经济学和发展经济学，研究兴趣包括性别问题，社会保障，健康，养老等相关问题。
北京大学经济学院工作坊简介
2018年10月，北京大学经济学院、国家发展研究院和新结构经济学研究院达成框架合作协议，约定采用轮流主持的方式共同举办工作坊，正式建立了科研领域的交流创新合作机制。2019年，根据协议，先后成立了七个工作坊：政治经济学工作坊；国际经济学与实证产业组织工作坊；宏观经济学工作坊；微观理论经济学工作坊；计量经济学和大数据分析工作坊；劳动-健康经济学工作坊和发展与公共财政工作坊。2019年七个工作坊共计举办127场活动，这些活动为广大师生提供了良好的国内外一流学术交流平台，促进了学院之间的学术资源整合和人才培养，提升了广大师生和经济学领域的研究水平。
