讲座主题：Gender Differences in College Migration

主讲嘉宾：张明昂 清华大学公共管理学院副教授

讲座时间：2026年4月10日周五14:00-16:00

讲座地点：沙河校区学院11号楼308

嘉宾简介：张明昂，清华大学公共管理学院副教授、清华大学产业发展与环境治理研究中心（CIDEG）副研究员。主要研究领域为发展经济学、环境经济学、劳动经济学，在Journal of Development Economics、Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》、《中国工业经济》、《数量经济技术经济研究》等期刊发表论文数十篇，主持1项国家自然科学基金青年项目，参与多项国家级项目和省部级委托课题，10多项决策咨询报告获中央领导批示或被省部级以上部门采纳。担任Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》等期刊匿名审稿人。

内容摘要：We examine gender differences in college migration—attending university outside one’s hometown—using administrative data covering the universe of National College Entrance Examination takers in China. Conditional on exam performance, girls are 4.5 percentage points less likely than boys to enroll outside their home province. This gap is larger in areas with stronger traditional gender norms. A new survey we conducted shows that parents of high school girls are less supportive of college migration than parents of boys. This disparity appears to be driven primarily by lower perceived returns to migration, greater safety concerns, and stronger preferences for daughters to find a local spouse, whereas risk preferences, family background, and parents’ elderly-care concerns contribute little. Using instrumental variables that exploit variation in university expansions and cross-province admission quotas, we estimate the causal migration premium and find it to be similar for boys and girls. Based on these estimates, closing the gender gap in college migration would reduce the gender gap in elite university attendance by 21% and the gender gap in wages by 11%.