讲座主题:
Sowing Seeds of Mobility: The Uneven Impact of Land Reform
主讲嘉宾:
陈婷 香港浸会大学 副教授
讲座信息:
2025年11月3日周一14:00
中央财经大学学院南路校区学术会堂606
嘉宾简介:
陈婷博士是香港浸会大学经济学副教授。她于2015年获得香港科技大学社会科学博士学位,随后在普林斯顿大学与香港中文大学(深圳)联合进行博士后研究工作。陈博士的研究领域包括经济史、城市经济学和政治经济学,尤其关注中国相关议题,她备受赞誉的研究成果涵盖中国土地市场以及城市发展模式等方面。她的研究论文发表在《The Economic Journal》、《The Quarterly Journal of Economics》、《Journal of Urban Economics》、《Journal of Development Economics》以及《Journal of Econometrics》等顶级学术期刊上。她的论文曾荣获2020年英国皇家经济学会最佳论文奖,并在2024年获得中国教育部青年成就奖。
内容摘要:
Mobility barriers hinder structural transformation and economic growth. This paper examines how land market frictions constrain labor mobility. In developing countries, rural households risk losing land if they stop cultivating it. This implicit barrier is made explicit through China’s hukou system. Typically, the wife remains in agriculture while the husband moves to non-agriculture. Using two land reforms that reduce this barrier, we construct a novel county-level reform index and show that these land reforms induce rural women to leave agriculture at higher rates than rural men, while also lowering urban women’s employment and wages relative to urban men. Incorporating this index into a two-sector model with intra-household employment decisions replicates the observed uneven impacts and has significant effects on agricultural productivity.本讲座由中央财经大学2025年专题学术讲座资助计划支持。