【主题】Hukou Status and Children’s Education in China
【报告人】赵忠（教授，中国人民大学劳动人事学院院长）
【时间】2023年5月26日周五13:30-15:00
【地点】经济学院710会议室
【语言】中文
【摘要】Under China’s household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children’s education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998. Before the reform, children could only inherit their mother’s hukou status. After 1998, newborns and preschoolers could inherit either their father’s or mother’s hukou status, which provided a unique exogenous opportunity for children with urban fathers and rural mothers to obtain urban hukou. Using China’s 2010 population census data, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the impact of hukou status on children’s education. We show that the younger cohorts exposed to the reform are 15.1 percentage points more likely to have urban hukou and are 18.9 percentage points more likely to be at the grade level appropriate for their age. Moreover, the effect is more pronounced amongst girls, and children from educated families or from large cities.
【报告人简介】赵忠，中国人民大学劳动人事学院院长、共同富裕研究院牵头人、国家发展与战略研究院劳动力市场研究中心主任，中国人民大学“杰出学者”特聘教授、经济学教授、博士生导师。1991年毕业于中国人民大学国际经济系，获经济学学士学位；2002年毕业于美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学经济系，获经济学博士学位。专业方向为劳动经济学、健康经济学和应用微观计量经济学；研究兴趣包括就业理论与政策、劳动力市场、收入分配与共同富裕、技术进步与数字经济、人力资本投资、城乡移民、健康与医疗的经济学分析、公共政策与社会项目评估等。
