♦ 主讲人
孙术乔(世界银行总部)
♦ 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
少即是多:家庭规模如何影响长期人力资本与经济机会(Less is More: How Family Size in Childhood Affects Long-Run Human Capital and Economic Opportunity)
♦ 时间
11月5日(周四)10:30-12:00
♦ 地点 北京大学经济学院302教室
报告摘要
This paper examines the impact of family size on children’s long-term wellbeing. The number of siblings is a prominent aspect of childhood family environments that affects parental time and resource investments. Leveraging temporal and county-level variation in access to abortion in the United States during the 1970s, my research design contrasts adult outcomes of children born just before an abortion clinic opened with adult outcomes in counties in which abortion remained difficult to obtain. The results suggest that access to abortion decreases the completed number of younger siblings. As their parents avoided unplanned children and achieved smaller family sizes, the children experienced significant improvements in their long-run outcomes, including increased educational attainment, greater labor-force participation, and higher neighborhood quality. The effects are larger in areas with greater exposure to safety net programs. These findings imply large, persistent returns to reproductive health policies that promote smaller families.
主讲人简介
孙术乔,美国密歇根大学经济学博士。现任职于世界银行总部。研究方向为劳动经济学、发展经济学、健康经济学、人口经济学。主要研究兴趣包括人力资本积累、技能形成、早期发展干预等领域的实证研究与项目设计。在国际高水平期刊Journal of Population Economics发表论文。
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、金融和大数据工作坊;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。
供稿单位 | 经济学院科研办公室
供稿人 | 王小倩
美编 | 山竹
责编 | 量子、禾雨、予天