China Economics Summer Institute 2011

Conference Agenda

 

Conference Venue:  Room 501, Weilun BLD, Tsinghua University

 

Friday, July 1:

1:30 - 1:45:     Welcome by Professor Bai Chong-En or Dean Qian Yingyi.

 

1:45 - 2:45:    International Mobility and Institutional Change.

Noam Yuchtman (University of California, Berkeley) and Suresh Naidu (Columbia University).

 

2:45 - 3:00:  Coffee Break

 

3:00 - 4:00:    How Intergenerational Status Transmission Affects Marital Sorting:

Evidence from China.   Zhao Yaohui (Peking University) and Li Han (Hong Kong University).

 

4:00 - 4:15:   Coffee Break

 

4:15 - 5:15:  China's Educational Inequality: Evidence from College Entrance Exams and Admissions.  Li Hong-Bin (Tsinghua University)

 

5:15 - 5:30:  Coffee Break

 

5:30 - 6:30:  Provincial and Local Governments in China -- Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior.   Roger Gordon (University of California, San Diego) and Li Wei (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business).

 

7:00:  Dinner (Quan Ju De)

 

Saturday, July 2:

 

9:00 - 10:00:  What is Different About New Exports? Productivity, Factor Intensity, and Product Switching.  Yu Ma, Heiwai Tang (Tufts University) and Yifan Zhang(Lingnan University)

 

10:00 - 10:15:  Coffee Break

 

10:15 - 11:15:   AStructural Estimation of Distortions in UK And Chinese Manufacturing Firms.  Laura Wu (Nanyang Technological University) and Song Zheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

 

11:15 - 11:45:  Coffee Break

 

11:45 - 12:45:  Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform:  Evidence from Chinese Exporters.  Amit Khandewal (Columbia Business School), Peter Schott (Yale School of Management), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia Business School).

 

1:00:  Lunch (Box  Lunch )

 

Sunday, July 3

9:00 - 10:00:   The Role of Elected and Appointed Village Leaders in the Allocation of Public Resources – Evidence from a Low-Income Region in China.  Mu Ren (Texas A&M University) and Zhang Xiaobo (International Food Policy Research Institute).

 

10:00 - 10:15:  Coffee Break

 

10:15 - 11:15:   Do Girls in China Compete Just as much as Boys? Evidence from an Experiment that Predicts Educational Choice.  Jane Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

 

11:15 - 11:45:  Coffee Break

 

11:45 - 12:45:  Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse.  Lin Wanchuan (Peking University), Janet Currie (Columbia University), and Wei Zhang (China Europe International Business School).

 

1:00 Lunch (Box Lunch)

 

Adjourn.