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时间：2012年12月21日（周五）中午12:30-14:00
地点：太阳集团tcy8722202室
嘉宾：张静（中国人民大学财政金融学院）
题目：Safe Drinking Water and Youth Education in Rural China
主持人：太阳集团tcy8722国际经济与贸易系 陈仪 博士
主讲人介绍：
Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor, received her PhD from University of Maryland in 2011 and joined Renmin University of China in the same year. She used to work at the World Bank from 2010 to 2011. The focus of her research lies in health economics and public finance. Publications include: “The Impact of Water Quality on Health: Evidence from the Drinking Water Infrastructure Program in Rural China”, Journal of Health Economics, 2012; “Soft Budget Constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong Hospital Industry”, International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics, 2009. (http://www.sfruc.edu.cn/team/cz/5582.html)
内容提要：
While previous research has shown health benefits of safe drinking water program, we know little about the benefits on longer-term benefits such as education. This paper examines the youth education benefits of a major drinking water infrastructure program starting from the 1980s, one of the largest such program in the world. By employing a longitudinal dataset with around 12,000 individual observations aged between 16 and 25, we find that this health program has benefited their education substantially: increasing the grades of education completed by 0.9 years and their probabilities of graduating from a lower and upper middle schools by around 18 and 89 percents, respectively. These estimation results are robust to a host of robustness checks, such as controlling for educational policy and local resources (by including county-year fixed effects), village distance to schools, local labor market conditions, educational demand, instrumenting the water treatment dummy with topographic variables, among others. Our estimates suggest that this program is highly cost-effective.
