论文题目：Unconditional Cash Transfer in Early Life and the Development of Cognitive Skills

报告人：赵丽秋（中国人民大学劳动人事学院副教授，国家发展与战略研究院研究员）

论文摘要：This paper examines the impact of early life exposure to unconditional cash transfer on adolescents’ cognitive skills. I exploit the variation across communities and over birth cohorts in exposure to the minimum living standard guarantee(Dibao) program in rural China and apply a difference-in-differences strategy. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, I find that one additional year of exposure to rural Dibao program in early life increases the cognitive test score at ages 10–15 by 0.038 standard deviations. Moreover, these effects are more pronounced for disadvantaged children. The Dibao program exposure also results in improvements in maternal mental health and increases in food expenditure which I interpret as potential mechanisms behind our findings.

时间：11月14日（周四）中午12:10-13:30

地点：学院南路校区学术会堂712

报告人简介：赵丽秋，经济学博士，中国人民大学劳动人事学院副教授，国家发展与战略研究院研究员，研究领域为劳动经济学、发展经济学和区域经济学。其在Journal of Comparative Economics、Journal of Population Economics、Regional Science and Urban Economics、Health Economics等国际主流经济学期刊发表英文论文十余篇。她是China Economic Review、Economic Development and Cultural Change、Economic Inquiry、Journal of Comparative Economics、Journal of Population Economics、Regional Science and Urban Economics、The RAND Journal of Economics、经济学（季刊）等国内外著名经济学学术期刊的审稿人。

主办：中国经济与管理研究院