The Average and Distributional Effects of Teenage Adversity on Long-Term Health
2018/10/05
研討會日期 : 2018-10-05
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Yi Lu (陸毅)
主持人 : Professor Kamhon Kan
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Lu received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Hong Kong in 2007. He is currently a Professor at Tsinghua University, Peking. His research interests are International Trade; Chinese Economy; and Applied Microeconometrics.
演講摘要 : A central question in human development is what causes health inequalities over the life cycle. This paper links adversity in the teen years to individuals' long-term health outcomes. We examine a mandatory rustication program, the “send-down" policy during China's Cultural Revolution, and employ Regression Discontinuity Design to estimate the impact on people's physical and mental outcomes 40 years later. Our results suggest that rusticated youths were more likely to develop mental disorders but not to have worse physical outcomes. Further assessing distributional effects through marginal treatment effect (MTE), we find strong heterogeneous treatment effects and selection on gains.
