卡特三农学术论坛之235期通告 薛森：Building Hope for the Poor

◇ 讲座时间：

2023年5月18日（周四）14:00-16:15

◇ 讲座地点：

浙江大学紫金港校区创意楼A座729会议室

◇ 本期主题：

Building Hope for the Poor

◇ 主讲嘉宾：

▲薛森

薛森，毕业于澳大利亚国立大学，现为暨南大学经济与社会研究院长聘副教授。主要研究领域为发展经济学、劳动经济学。在国内外知名杂志发表论文多篇，并参与数个大型社会调查项目。

◇ 内容摘要：

This paper examines the effect of a safe housing program that has greatly improved housing conditions for the poor in a most impoverished ethnic minority region in China, where almost half of the labour force had no formal schooling in 2010. We find that the safe housing program significantly increases labour income (i.e., the sum of agricultural income, business income and wage income) for the poor, and the effect is stronger among the higher-educated and those in villages with better conditions and amenities. We provide supporting evidence that this positive income effect is due to the health improvement and increase in investment for the future caused by the safe housing program. Consistent with the push-pull theory of migration, as the safe housing program weakens the push factor, we also find that it reduces migration and wage income.

◇ 主持人：

史新杰，浙江大学中国农村发展研究院、公共管理学院研究员