报告题目：China Labor Outcomes and Landholding Size in Rural Zimbabwe

报  告 人：Jeffrey Alwang 教授

主  持 人：何勤英  教授

时    间：2018年12月18日（星期二）下午4：00

地    点：威尼斯87978797602室

报告摘要：

     The relationship between rural household productive assets and child labor in developing countries is complex. Some empirical evidence shows that child labor tends to increase as land holding increases, or there is an inverted U-shaped curve relationship between the probability of putting children to work and land holding. This paper shows that the relationship between use of children as laborers and landholding is nuanced. Child labor generally decreases as per capita land holding increases, but there can be an upward bump in the relationship between child labor and landholding near the middle of the range of land per capita. The bump can be explained theoretically by the relationship between the marginal productivity of a child worker on the farm and the marginal value placed on his/her education at different levels of wealth. This pattern is repeated in three surveys conducted in Zimbabwe, in 2001, 2007–8, and 2010–11. From the perspective of policy making, the policy maker should be alerted that the programs to promote school retention should not necessarily focus only on the poorest households in rural areas. There is a high probability that middle-wealth households put their children to work, and this probability may change by some other factors such as gender of child and agro-ecological conditions.

专家简介：

Jeffrey Alwang，1989年在康奈尔大学（Cornell University）农业经济系获博士学位，现在为弗吉尼亚理工大学农业和应用经济系教授、华南农业大学丁颖教授。在农业经济方面的研究成果丰硕，在发展中国家农经、农产品价格政策和农业环境保护政策领域已出版多本书籍以及在核心期刊上发表80多篇重要文章。曾经和正担任津巴布韦和巴拉圭政府的专家，国际牲畜研究中心、国际食物政策研究所（IFPRI)、 世界银行、国际林业研究中心（CIFOR）、农村发展的全球捐助平台和国际农业研究磋商组织（CGIAR）咨询专家，其中在世界银行负责关于减少农村贫困和农村发展方面的研究。在实践上，积极把学术成果转为政策，取得较好的效果，横向和纵向课题经费累积达到1千万美元。

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