报告题目: The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China
报 告 人: 张鹏博士
时 间: 2020年12月25日13:30-16:30
地 点: 中国西部科技创新港涵英楼8楼8121会议室
报告人简介:
张鹏博士于2010年取得山东大学经济学学士学位,于2016年6月取得美国加州大学圣巴巴拉分校经济学博士学位。同年8月任教于香港理工大学会计与金融学院,担任经济学助理教授。2020年8月任教与香港中文大学(深圳)经管学院,担任经济学助理教授。张鹏博士的主要研究方向为环境经济学和发展经济学,已经在环境经济学顶级期刊Journal of Environmental Economics and Management发表3篇文章,在发展经济学顶级期刊Journal of Development Economics发表2篇文章。目前在经济学大领域权威期刊The Economic Journal有返修论文,并且多篇工作论文挂在National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)上。此外,张鹏博士还是公众号“鹏哥谈留学”的创始人和运营者。
讲座摘要:
(1)This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous variation for medium-run air pollution levels. Our findings suggest that air pollution is responsible for large changes in inflows and outflows of migration in China. Specifically, we find that a 10 percent increase in air pollution, holding everything else constant, is capable of reducing population through net outmigration by about 2.8 percent in a given county. We find that these inflows are primarily driven by well-educated people at the beginning of their professional careers, leading to substantial changes in the sociodemographic composition of the population and labor force of Chinese counties. We also find a strong gender asymmetry in the response of mid-age adults that suggests families are splitting across counties to protect vulnerable members of the household. Our results are robust to different specifications, including a spatial lag model that accounts for localized migration spillovers and spatially correlated pollution shocks.
(2)留学公益讲座 (15:30-16:30)
作为公众号“鹏哥谈留学”的创始人和运营者,张鹏博士将为介绍美国经济学硕士博士项目,香港金融学硕士项目,以及如何申请。
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