时间：2021年9月28日（周二）9:00-10:30

地点：腾讯在线会议

题目：Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China

主讲人：Sherry Li（University of Arkansas）

主持人：李玲芳 教授

会议ID：578 622 609

会议密码：0928

摘要：China shifted its controversial one-child policy (1979–2015) to a two-child policy in 2016. We take advantage of this unexpected policy change and the heterogeneities in the pre- change environment to investigate labor market discrimination against expected family responsibilities. In a two-wave correspondence study before and after the policy change, we sent 8,848 fictitious resumes aged 22 to 29 in response to online job advertisements. Their gender and only-child/siblinged status were systematically varied. We find that women, but not men, are subject to labor market discrimination for expected family responsibilities. This discrimination worsens with the increase in women’s reproductive age.

主讲人简介：Sherry Li (李欣) is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Behavioral Business Research Lab of the Sam M.Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Her research is primarily experimental and behavioral, in areas of broadly defined public economics, labor economics, and development economics. Her research has been published in prestigious economics journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Development Economics, and Experimental Economics. She is currently an Associate Editor at Economic Inquiry and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. She received her Ph.D.in economics from the University of Michigan in 2006.Before she joined the University of Arkansas, she was on the faculty of Economics at the University of Texas-Dallas (UTD) and served as the Director of the Negotiations Center at UTD from 2013 to 2018.