报告题目：The Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) and Farm Households’ Adoption of Technology: Evidence from China

内容介绍：The diffusion of new technology is an important driver of agricultural development, especially in the developing world. In this research, we follow the persistence of major historical events, employing a difference-in-differences method to carefully examine the long-term effect of China’s 1959–1961 famine on farm households’ current decisions to adopt technology. Further, we combine a mediating regression procedure with a bootstrap method to explore the mechanism of impact in this relationship. Overall, this study provides strong empirical evidence that the Great Famine attenuated technology adoption; moreover, a 1% increase in exposure to famine in childhood and adolescence resulted in a 0.137% decrease in the probability of technology adoption when controlling for village dummies. An analysis of mediating effects reveals that risk preferences account for the channel of famine persistence.

主讲人：陈相泼 博士

时间：2023年9月20日10：00-11：30

地点：9-326

主讲人简介：陈相泼，浙江温州人，华南农业大学博士。研究兴趣为应用经济学，主要关注行为经济、性别分工、文化研究等方面问题。主持广东省攀登计划科技项目1项，参与国家社科项目3项。在《Economic Modelling》、《The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics》、《Asian Studies Review》、《Review of Development Economics》、《Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy》、《地域研究与开发》、《农村经济》等刊物上发表论文9篇。兼任SSCI期刊《Journal of Asian Economics》、《Applied Economic Letters》匿名审稿人。