| 主题Topic： | The intergenerational effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on Education(中国文化大革命对教育的代际影响) |
| 主讲人Speaker | 赵国昌 西南财经大学经管研究院助理教授 |
| 主持人Chair： | 帅杰 副教授 中南财经政法大学 文澜学院A |
| 时间Time： | 2015年10月30日（周五）3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
| 地点Venue： | 南湖校区 文波楼204 |
主讲人简介：
Guochang Zhao: Assistant Professor of Economics at Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Dr. Guochang Zhao got his PhD degree in Australian National University in 2013 and has published papers in China Economic Review, Energy Economics and China Economic Quarterly, etc.
Research Interests: labor economics, applied econometrics, energy and environment economics.
内容提要：
This paper aims to examine the causal effect of parental education on children’s education and the long-term consequence of a historical human capital intervention. Between 1966 and 1976 China experienced 10 years of the Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, many cohorts’ education level was exogenously interrupted, but the school interruption during the CR had no direct effect on the next generation. Using this historical event as instrumental variables we estimate the causal effect of intergenerational education transmission. We find that in urban China, a one year decrease in parent’s schooling because of school interruption during the CR leads to an about 0.3 year decrease in the child’s schooling; if a parent did not obtain a university degree because of school interruption during the CR, the child is around 40 percent less likely to obtain a university degree. This paper confirms a significant and sizable causal effect of parental education level on their children’s education and long lasting adverse effect of the Cultural Revolution.
