On September 25, 2018, IESR scholars were joined by Prof. James Heckman and a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research Prof. Tim Kautz to share and discuss their latest research at the Chicago-Jinan Initiative Workshop 2018. Several outstanding presentations covering all-acompassing topics were delivered at the workshop, thus facilitating rigorous and fruitful discussion among the scholars.

Discussion at the Chicago-Jinan Initiative Workshop 2018

Presentations given at Chicago-Jinan Joint Initiative Workshop 2018:

• James Heckman – “American Inequality and Social Mobility Viewed Through a Danish Prism”;

• Shuaizhang Feng – “Adjusting Labor Flows”;

• Yi Chen – “Arrival of Young Talents Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China”;

• Prof. Sisi Zhang – “Rising Household Income Inequality and Instability – Putting the Pieces Together”;

• Tim Kautz – “The Effects of Situations on Measurements of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Among Primary School Students in Shanghai”;

• Prof. Shu Cai – “Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Acquisition: Evidence from China”;

• Bin Xie – “Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882”.