讲座题目
Weathering the Storm: How do Free Compulsory Education and Early-life Shocks Shape Long-Term Education Attainment?
内容简介
We explore how early-life shocks interact with subsequent human capital investments to impact individuals’ long-term education attainment. Leveraging the rollout of free compulsory education reform in rural China and early-life rainfall shocks as two sources of exogenous variation, we employ cohort difference-in-differences and triple differences methods to identify the causal effects on educational outcomes. We show that exposure to the reform significantly improves grade completion during compulsory schooling. Conversely, early-life adverse rainfall substantially decreases educational attainment, leading to an average decrease in schooling of 0.2-0.4 years. However, longer exposure to the reform mitigates these adverse effects, with approximately three additional semesters of enrolment compensating for a one standard-deviation increase in early-life extreme rainfall exposure. Our findings suggest a dynamic substitutability rather than complementarity between family and government human capital investments.
主讲人
王耀璟助理教授、研究员（北京大学经济学院）
讲座时间
2024年12月4日（周三）12:30—14:00
讲座地点
求是楼347会议室
讲座语言
中英文
主持人
赵丽秋 教授
参与人员
热烈欢迎广大师生参加。
主讲人介绍
王耀璟，北京大学经济学院助理教授、研究员、博士生导师。研究领域为劳动和教育经济学、公共经济学等，主持国家社会科学基金一般项目，多项研究成果发表于国内外期刊如《Journal of Labor Economics》、《Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization》、《China Economic Review》、《经济科学》等。
编辑：许彤颖 蔡丽琪 王鸿飞
审核：陈姚
