经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第95期

题目：Artificial Administrative Boundaries: Evidence from China

主讲人：李培，厦门大学

时间：2018年5月11日13:30-15:00

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B会议室

主讲人简介：

李培，中国人民大学经济学博士，现为厦门大学经济学院财政系、王亚南经济研究院副教授。主要研究领域为公共经济学和环境经济学，目前已在American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics, 《管理世界》等国内外重要期刊发表多篇论文。

Abstract:

What happens when subnational boundaries are badly drawn? We use China as a test case to investigate the ramifications. As Chinese provincial and longstanding socioeconomic boundaries are not fully aligned, counties of the same province may not share the same regional identity. Using Deng Xiaoping's economic liberalization campaign in 1991-92 to implement a difference-in-differences, we find that the annual growth differential between aligned and misaligned counties increased by 0.96 percentage points after Deng's campaign galvanized the provinces to pursue economic expansion. We also uncover evidence of discrimination against the misaligned counties by the provincial authorities.