Tractor vs. Animal: Rural Reforms and Technology Adoption in China

主    讲：兰小欢（复旦大学经济学院）

主    持：刘瑞明（中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院）

时    间：2019年11月11日（周一）14:00-15:30

地    点：中国人民大学崇德西楼（原科研楼A座）916会议室

摘要：Better institutions do not always advance technologies. China’s rural reforms during the early 1980s secured land tenure for peasants and dismantled large collective farms into small household farms, which transformed tillage technology. Using a novel data set of 1,755 counties from 1976 to 1988, our event study exploits the county-by-county rollout of the reform. We find that the use of tractors plummeted after the reform while the use of draft animals surged. Post-reform tractor use, however, became more efficient: it was more suitable to local factor endowments and related to higher grain yields.

主讲人简介：兰小欢，美国弗吉尼亚大学经济学博士，复旦大学经济学院副教授，中国经济研究中心研究员，上海国际金融与经济研究院研究员。曾任长江经济带产业基金战略与研究总监。主要研究中国的经济发展以及中国的政治经济等。论文发表在American Economic Journal: Applied Economics，American Economic Journal: Economic Policy，Economics of Education Review，Journal of Comparative Economics，Journal of Policy Analysis and Management等期刊。出版经济学科普读物《一转念：用经济学思考》，编译《腐败与反腐败的经济学》。