题目：Occupational Dynasties and Economic Development

主讲人：许士元，香港中文大学（深圳）

时间：2025年5月12日（星期一）上午10:00-11:30

地点：暨南大学（石牌校区）中惠楼106会议室

主讲人简介

Martin Shu is an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, development economics, and labor economics.

Abstract:

We use data from 192 cross-sections of 89 countries and document that occupational dynasties are more common in poor countries and in more elite occupations. We show empirically that skill inheritance and rents explain only a small part of the dynasties. We then construct a quantitative model of occupational selection to explore the effect of education and labor market frictions on dynastic bias and aggregate output. Our preliminary results imply that the differences in dynastic bias across countries are mostly due to occupation entry barriers rather than other factors such as years of schooling and rent-sharing.