| Term: Spring 2021 (with occasional seminars in Fall 2020) |
| Location: via ZOOM |
| E-list for ZOOM: if you're not already on my listServ e-list, please send your best e-mail to <amadeoholl@gmail.com> |
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Meeting Time: Wednesdays at 8pm EST |
| Description: This seminar provides a forum for faculty, graduate students, and research fellows in economics and other fields to present and discuss research and scholarship on the economic and social transformation of China. The seminar will give special attention to the Covid19 pandemic, the environmental, technological, and social changes that are accompanying China's extraordinary economic development and to the links between Chinese and US economies. |
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FIRST SEMINAR: |
| SCHEDULE - SPRING 2021 | |
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Wed Feb 3 @ 8pm
THIS SEMINAR will be joint with Seminar on Economics of Science & Engineering
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SPEAKER: Xiaoying LI |
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Wed Feb 10 @ 8pm |
SPEAKER: Tanggang Yuan (Peking University) TITLE: "Would the Grandparents Save China’s Demographic Crisis?” (paper joint with Zhixiang Geng (Wuhan University) and Richard B. Freeman) ABSTRACT: As China faces the diminishing demographic dividend, the government has abolished the one-child policy to increase fertility. Building a theoretical model incorporating grandparents’ childcare factor and using China Family Panel Studies 2016 (CFPS 2016), we investigate whether the availability of grandparents’ childcare would increase the number of children in the household. Our empirical analysis shows families with grandparents’ childcare have 0.14 more children without their counterparts. This conclusion stands out a series of robustness and heterogeneity checks. Our findings suggest that the informal grandparents’ childcare is important in increasing fertility in China. ZOOM LINK: to be sent to listServ ZOOM RECORDING: tba |
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SPEAKER: TITLE: ABSTRACT: ZOOM LINK: to be sent to listServ ZOOM RECORDING: tba |