时间：2019年9月25日（周三）14：00-15：30

　　地点：北大国发院致福轩会议室

　　主持人：李力行、席天扬

　　主讲人：Wei Huang

　　题目：Technology Adoption, Factor Flows and Economic Development:  Evidence from Rural China

　　摘要：In 2004, the Chinese government started the machinery subsidy policy and the amount of subsidy increased from less than 20 million in the beginning to over 1 billion yuan in 2013. Using the 2003-2014 household panel data from fixed point survey of 320 villages, we examine the impacts of the subsidies on machinery spending, land renting, labor migration, (productivity), and household income. Exploring the temporal and cross-sectional variations in provincial subsidy provision and ruggedness and size of the land, we show that the machinery subsidies increase the usage of farm machines, especially in the villages of large and plain lands. Correspondingly, the subsidies boost the land renting behaviors, increase the concentration of land usage, and increase the migration among the young rural people. Finally, we find that the subsidies significantly increase agriculture productivity and household income. Specially, a 10% increase in machinery subsidy increase income per capita by 0.15%.

　　主讲人简介：

　　Wei Huang

　　Dr HUANG Wei is the President’s Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Department of Strategy and Policy at National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, Dr Huang was a Post-doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr Huang received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2016. He received an M.A in economics from National School of Development at Peking University in 2011, and a B.A. in physics from School of Physics at Peking University in 2008.

　　His research fields are public economics, labor economics, and health economics. He is interested in the topics such as health, education, ethnicity, and China. His research work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, etc. He is an editor for Economics of Transition.