经院国发强强联手 | 劳动与健康经济学工作坊
Labor and Health Economics Workshop Series
系列讲座-1
Title/题目：Selective Migration and Agricultural Productivity Gap: Evidence from China 选择性迁移和农业生产力差异：基于中国的证据
Time/时间：2019/9/20（周五）13:30-15:00
Location/地点：Rm 305, School of Economics 8797威尼斯老品牌305教室
Speaker/主讲人：Guo, Naijia (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 郭乃嘉（香港中文大学）
Organizer/组织人：秦雪征、王耀璟、袁野、赵耀辉、雷晓燕、张丹丹
Abstract/报告摘要：
This paper analyzes the agricultural productivity gap (APG) in China by controlling for selective migration. Using the National Fixed Point Survey, a panel dataset that tracks 20,000 households during 2003-2013 in rural China, we first show that the agricultural productivity gap slightly drops from 49% to 47% when we control for individual observable characteristics and individual fixed effects. We further control for the selection bias by allowing for two dimensional unobserved heterogeneities in a sector choice model, where individuals have different agricultural and non-agricultural abilities and face one-time and annual migration costs. We make use of the county-by-county roll-out of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) as an instrument that only affects the migration costs but not earnings in either sector to identify the relative contribution of migration barriers to the agricultural productivity gap. Our structural estimation shows that the APG remains large and the migration costs are higher for female, less educated, and older workers living in counties without the NRPS.
Speaker Bio/主讲人简介：
Prof. Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She got her PhD degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Her research interests are Labor Economics, Family Economics, Development Economics, and Health Economics.
供稿人：王小倩
