报告题目： The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China

报 告 人： 张鹏博士

时    间： 2020年12月25日13:30-16:30

地    点： 中国西部科技创新港涵英楼8楼8121会议室

报告人简介：

    张鹏博士于2010年取得山东大学经济学学士学位，于2016年6月取得美国加州大学圣巴巴拉分校经济学博士学位。同年8月任教于香港理工大学会计与金融学院，担任经济学助理教授。2020年8月任教与香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院，担任经济学助理教授。张鹏博士的主要研究方向为环境经济学和发展经济学，已经在环境经济学顶级期刊Journal of Environmental Economics and Management发表3篇文章，在发展经济学顶级期刊Journal of Development Economics发表2篇文章。目前在经济学大领域权威期刊The Economic Journal有返修论文，并且多篇工作论文挂在National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)上。此外，张鹏博士还是公众号“鹏哥谈留学”的创始人和运营者。

讲座摘要：

（1）This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous variation for medium-run air pollution levels. Our findings suggest that air pollution is responsible for large changes in inflows and outflows of migration in China. Specifically, we find that a 10 percent increase in air pollution, holding everything else constant, is capable of reducing population through net outmigration by about 2.8 percent in a given county. We find that these inflows are primarily driven by well-educated people at the beginning of their professional careers, leading to substantial changes in the sociodemographic composition of the population and labor force of Chinese counties. We also find a strong gender asymmetry in the response of mid-age adults that suggests families are splitting across counties to protect vulnerable members of the household. Our results are robust to different specifications, including a spatial lag model that accounts for localized migration spillovers and spatially correlated pollution shocks.

（2）留学公益讲座 (15:30-16:30)

作为公众号“鹏哥谈留学”的创始人和运营者，张鹏博士将为介绍美国经济学硕士博士项目，香港金融学硕士项目，以及如何申请。

经济与金融学院

2020年12月22日