报告题目：Better Health, Better education? A Mid-term Evidence from a Drinking Water Infrastructure Program in Rural China

时间：2011年11月9日 星期三 12:00 – 14:00

地点：明主714

报告人：张静

摘要：The causal relationship between health and education has been studied in a variety of ways in the literature. In this paper I examine the impact on the people’s educational attainment of a major infrastructure program, which aims at improving the quality of drinking water from the 1980s in rural China. By employing a longitudinal data set with around 5000 male adults, I find that this health program has raised their educational attainment, increasing the years of education and the probabilities of graduating from different stages of school. And the results are robust to a host of robustness checks.

报告人简介：张静，中国人民大学财政与金融学院，讲师，美国马里兰大学经济学博士，研究领域为公共财政、卫生经济学和环境经济学。