发展经济学workshop:Spirit of Innovation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Qing Dynasty of China

发布日期:2023-05-17 12:00    来源:

时间:2023年5月17日(周三)11:30-13:00

参与方式:线下,承泽园245

主讲人:王学博(上财)

参与老师:(国发院)李力行,席天扬,徐化愚,于航,王轩,易君健
               (经院)刘冲,吴群锋,曹光宇

论文题目:Spirit of Innovation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Qing Dynasty of China

论文摘要:With the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty of China as an exogenous shock on innovation, we empirically study the effect of spirit of innovation on long-term economic development. Through our empirical investigations, we attempt to contribute to the explanations of two fundamental puzzles in Chinese history: (1) China was the global leader in science and technology before 1700, why this advantage did not lead to an Industrial Revolution (the Needham puzzle); (2) why China declined in the late Qing Dynasty. With a Difference-in-Differences (DID) strategy, by exploiting the variation of the literary inquisition across region and over time, we find that the literary inquisition reduced the number of scientific and technological innovations by at least 55–73% in affected regions in the short term and further had a negative effect on the long-term economic development of those regions in the Qing Dynasty.

主讲人介绍:王学博,上海财经大学经济学院副教授。主要研究领域为应用微观经济学,包括发展经济学与劳动经济学,目前侧重于政治经济学、公共经济学以及经济史方面的实证研究。
个人主页:https://www.wangxuebo.com/

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