Date: Sep.20^th, 2019

Time: 12:00-13:30

Speaker: ZHANG Yifan

Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan Campus

[Speaker Intro]

Prof. Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received B.A. and M.A. from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. He worked at Lingnan University before joining CUHK in 2015. He is also a consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. His main research interests include international trade, FDI, and Chinese economic issues. His research results were published in well-known international journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of International Economics.

【Abstract】

Based on a comprehensive rural household survey from China, this paper examines the impact of regional export expansion on rural household income. For identification, we exploit the regional variation in the exposure to the reductions in tariff uncertainty caused by the Permanent Normal Trade Relations that the U.S. granted to China upon China’s WTO entry. We find that non-agricultural exports raised rural income, with stronger effects on lower income households. Such export-induced income growth is driven by higher labor force participation rate, wage increases in both agricultural sector and non-agricultural sector, and a reallocation of labor between these two sectors.