Does Housing Wealth Affect Child Development? Evidence and Mechanism

家庭房产价值是否影响子女发展？来自中国房价政策的断点回归分析

时间：12月23日（周三）10：00-11：30
 

地点：北京大学国家发展研究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、石菊、王耀璟、袁野

主讲人：谢慧华（香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院助理教授）

报告摘要:

This paper explores a discontinuity in house size from China’s housing policies to identify the effect of housing wealth on children’s health and developmental outcomes. It shows that housing wealth gains lower children’s cognitive skills, lessen their belief in an internal locus of control, and decrease children’s self-esteem, but have little impact on children’s physical health or the probability of reporting depression symptoms. Gains in housing wealth during childhood is critical for cognitive development, while personality traits are greatly affected by housing wealth during the adolescent period. Our mechanism analysis suggests that parenting skills play a large role in housing wealth’s effect on child development.

主讲人简介：

谢慧华，香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院助理教授。她于2010年取得上海财经大学经济学学士学位，2014年取得新加坡国立大学经济学博士学位。她的研究方向是劳动经济学、健康经济学和公共经济学，研究成果发表于Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , Journal of Health Economics, 和Journal of Public Economics等期刊上。