讲座题目： Land Reform and Intergenerational Mobility
时间： 2020年11月20日上午9:00-11:00
地点： 文泉楼北603会议室
主持人： 鲁元平 教授
主讲嘉宾： 万千
经济学博士，厦门大学王亚南经济研究院博士后
内容简介：
Previous studies have well documented the socioeconomic impacts of land reform. However, fewer discussed the influence on social mobility. Based on the land reform in rural China during 1978-1984, called Household Responsibility System (HRS), we investigate the effect of land reform on intergenerational mobility. We find that HRS reform improves children’s educational attainment and decreases intergenerational mobility in rural China. The mechanism analysis shows that HRS reform increases the rural household human capital investment by raising agricultural income and well-educated parents spend a greater proportion of farm income on children’s human capital investment compared with less-educated parents. Therefore, HRS reform enlarges the gap in human capital investment between children from advantaged and disadvantaged families in rural China.