时间：10月21日（周三） 10：00-11：30

地点：北大国发院万众楼一层大教室

主持人：（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、雷晓燕、张丹丹

             （经院）秦雪征、王耀璟、袁野

主讲人：冯帅章（暨南大学经济学院院长）

题目：Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Shanghai Elementary Schools

报告摘要:

This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a priori ambiguous in sign. We apply our approach to migrant and local students in Shanghai, where migrant students are endogenously selected into either public schools or low-quality private schools. The results suggest large contemporaneous peer effects among all students, especially within migrant and local student groups. We conduct a desegregation policy experiment which moves migrant students from a private school to a public school. We show that ignoring heterogeneity in peer effects would underestimate gains to migrant students moved to public schools, and overestimate harms to local and migrant students originally in the public schools.

主讲人简介：

冯帅章，暨南大学经济学院院长，暨南大学经济与社会研究院院长，教育部长江学者特聘教授，国家有突出贡献中青年专家，国家杰出青年科学基金项目获得者，享受国务院特殊津贴专家，入选第三批国家“万人计划”哲学社会科学领军人才，中宣部文化名家暨“四个一批”人才，国家百千万人才工程。目前担任民政部专家咨询委员会委员 (2018-2021)，暨南大学学术委员会副主任委员，人口经济学顶级期刊《Journal of Population Economics》联合主编。冯帅章教授主要研究领域为劳动力市场、人口流动、儿童发展、中国经济等，文章发表于《美国经济评论》、《美国国家科学院院刊》、《经济研究》等国内外顶级期刊，2019年荣获首届“中国青年经济学家奖”。