Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

时间：2022年6月1日（周三）10：00-11：30

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主持人：（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、雷晓燕、张丹丹、易君健
       （经院）秦雪征、石菊、王耀璟、袁野、Kevin Devereux

主讲人：谢慧华  香港中文大学（深圳）

论文摘要： 

We investigate how early life circumstances induced by trade liberalization affect adolescent mental health in China. We find that children born in prefectures more exposed to an exogenous change in international trade policy experienced a significant relative decline in the incidence of severe depression during adolescence, as classified by the CES-D scale. We show that these results are not driven by preexisting trends in the outcomes, and that the estimated relationships are robust to controls for initial prefecture attributes and other policy changes. Improvements in parental income, early childhood investments, and maternal care provision are likely operative channels of impact.

主讲人简介：

Huihua Xie is an Assistant Professor at the School of Management and Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the National University of Singapore. Her research aims to understand the origins of human development differences and the effectiveness of alternative intervention strategies to foster human skills, improve labor market outcomes, and remediate disadvantages. Huihua’s research has been published in top economic journals, including the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, etc.