国发院/经院发展与公共财政系列讲座：

The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

时间：2019年12月18日（周三）14：00-15：30

地点：北大国发院致福轩会议室

主持人：郝煜、李力行、刘冲、席天扬、张晓波

主讲人：蒋俊彦

题目：The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy

摘要：Fighting corruption is often seen as a crucial step toward building better institutions, but how it affects political selection remains less well understood. We argue that in systems where corruption functions as an informal incentive for government to attract talent, anticorruption initiatives that curb rent-seeking opportunities may unintentionally weaken both the quality and the representativeness of the bureaucracy. We test this argument in China using an original nationwide survey of government officials and an identification strategy that exploits exogenous variations in enforcement levels created by the recent anticorruption campaign. We find that intensified enforcement has generated two potentially negative selection effects: a deterrence effect that lowered the average ability of newly recruited bureaucrats, and a compositional effect that discouraged the entry of lower class individuals in favor of those who are affluent and well connected. These findings highlight important hidden human capital costs of corruption elimination in developing countries.

主讲人简介：

Assistant Professor

BA (HKU) MA, PHD (Chicago)

Junyan Jiang received his Ph.D in political science from the University of Chicago in 2016. His research encompasses a range of topics including informal institutions, political leadership, distributive politics, and public opinion in nondemocratic systems. His ongoing book project examines how patron-client networks shaped the patterns of political and economic governance in China. His research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies.