北大经院工作坊第1263场
Local Knowledge and State Building: Evidence from Chinese Gazetteers
发展与公共财政工作坊
主讲人:马驰骋(香港大学经济管理学院副教授)
参与老师:
(北大经院)刘冲、吴群锋、曹光宇、年永威
(北大国发)李力行、席天扬、徐化愚、于航、王轩、易君健、黄清扬
(北大光华)张晓波、仇心诚
时间:2026年4月22日(周三)10:30-12:00
地点:世界杯官网国家发展研究院承泽园249教室
主讲人简介:
马驰骋,香港大学经管学院经济学副教授,香港人文社会研究所礼任研究员,香港大学量化历史研究中心副主任。他的研究集中于经济史与发展经济学,侧重历史文化与人力资本对经济发展的长期影响。他曾获2020年英国皇家经济学会最佳论文奖,2022年美国经济史学会最佳论文奖,及2024年中国金融学优秀论文奖。目前他担任Economic History Review编委,Asia-Pacific Economic History Review及Journal of Comparative Economics副主编。他毕业于香港科技大学,获社会科学哲学博士学位,随后于2012至2017年任教山东大学世界杯官网。
摘要:
This paper examines the importance of local knowledge for state building. Drawing upon the quantity and quality of local gazetteers, the regional encyclopedias of imperial China, we measure the accumulation of local knowledge in 267 prefectures over a millennium. We find that the gazetteers facilitated the local penetration of state power and infrastructure between 1000 and 1820, and continued to contribute to the modernization of state infrastructure during the period of reform between 1860 and 1911. Analyzing the content of gazetteers reveals that the gazetteer effect arises from the richness, concretization, and uniqueness of records of local characteristics. These findings indicate that the state is not merely built on unified and standardized measures but also on contextbased local knowledge that increases the legibility of subjects.
北大经院工作坊第1264场
Locked In or Opting Out? Marital Exit Costs, Household Formation, and Fertility
经院-全健院
“健康与劳动经济学”工作坊
主讲人:罗知(武汉大学经济与管理学院教授)
主持人:(北大经院)石菊
参与老师:
(北大经院)秦雪征、施新政、姚奕、袁野、王耀璟、梁远宁、庄晨
(北大全健院)刘国恩、黄成、孙宇、杨佳楠、崔知涵、林淑君、林昊翔、蒋少翔、潘聿航
时间:2026年4月22日(周三)10:00-11:30
地点:世界杯官网全球健康发展研究院科技园403会议室
主讲人简介:
罗知,三级教授,博士生导师。2021年入选教育部青年长江学者计划,武汉大学经济与管理学院副院长,武汉大学中国民营经济研究中心主任,武汉大学数字经济发展与治理论坛联席主席,亚洲开发银行研究顾问,国家社科基金重大项目首席专家,受邀为武汉市委理论学习中心组授课,湖北省讲师团成员。
研究方向为发展经济学、产业经济学和数字经济。主持国家社科基金重大项目、教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目,四项国家自然科学基金。在《经济研究》(6篇),《管理世界》,《世界经济》,《中国工业经济》,《金融研究》,《统计研究》,World Economy, China Economic Review, Review of Development Economics等期刊上发表论文数十篇。曾获得金融学中文顶级期刊《金融研究》最佳论文(Top1)、安子介国际贸易研究奖、湖北省社科二等奖等、商务部发展研究成果奖等十余项省部级学术荣誉。担任Journal of International Economics ,《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》等众多权威期刊审稿人,国家自然科学基金通讯评委。
在数字经济和反垄断方面,罗知老师曾担任瑞幸诉星巴克滥用市场支配地位案件瑞幸方专家证人,为阿里巴巴、高德、百度等企业提供研究咨询。
罗知关于民营经济的研究也受到媒体广泛关注,接受了来自中央电视台《新闻1+1》白岩松现场连线,新华社、新华社内参、CGNT、《中国新闻周刊》等国内二十余家知名媒体的专访和采访,新华社专访点击量过百万。
摘要:
This paper studies how higher marital exit costs shape marriage formation and fertility decisions. We exploit a quasi-experimental tightening of litigation divorce standards in China that raised the effective cost of marital dissolution without altering statutory divorce law. Combining nationwide court verdicts, marriage registration records, and household survey data, we implement a factorial difference-in-differences design that leverages pre-reform heterogeneity in judicial divorce leniency. We find that higher divorce costs significantly delay marriage, reduce marriage formation, and depress fertility. Marriage registrations decline by approximately 4.9 percent, while city-level birth rates fall by about 7 percent. Individual-level evidence reveals lower marriage intentions, postponed first marriages among young women, increased non-marital cohabitation among men, and more assortative matching in education and age. We further decompose the fertility response into two channels: reduced entry into marriage and lower fertility investment within marriage. Rising divorce costs both shrink the pool of potential parents and suppress childbearing among married couples. Together, these results identify marital exit institutions as a central determinant of marriage market behavior and fertility dynamics under institutional uncertainty.
供稿:科研与博士后办公室
美编:禾轩
责编:度量、雨禾、雨田