嘉    宾：Richard Freeman 教授 哈佛大学

主持人：朱  喜 教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时    间：2024年10月30日（周三）10:00-11:30

地    点:  上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A407

内容简介：

Grandparents taking care of children can reduce the cost of childcare by enabling parents to work more easily, and thus should increase the incentive for having children. This paper examines the role of grandparents on second births in China, where most married couples have a single child that makes second births the margin of decision in child-bearing. While government policy has shifted from penalizing families who had more than one-child to encouraging additional births, fertility remains low. The paper shows that grandparents’ childcare is a major determinant of the likelihood that a married woman has a second birth and that the grandparent effect operates in large part by enabling mothers to work more in the labor market. It uses the exogenous variation of the number of living grandparents as an instrumental variable to pin down the causal direction of the link between grandparents taking care of a child and their adult children having a second child.  It further finds heterogeneity in the magnitude of the grandparent childcare effect by type of firm and family income.

演讲人简介： 

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is a Research Associate at the NBER, and is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at the Harvard Law School. Professor Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2011 he was appointed Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2016 he received the Global Equity Organization (GEO) Judges Award, honoring exceptional contribution towards the promotion of global employee share ownership. Also in 2016, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; the award citation describes Richard as "an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field." Professor Freeman's research interests include the job market for scientists and engineers; the transformation of scientific ideas into innovations, Chinese and Korean labor markets; the effects of AI and robots on the job market; and forms of labor market representation and employee ownership.