时间：6月16日星期一下午3:30-5:00

 

地点：国家发展研究院万众楼小教室

 

主讲： 黄炜 （ 哈佛大学）

 

主持：雷晓燕、赵耀辉

 

讲座题目和摘要：

 

1. Collaborations between Chinese and US Researchers: A New Special Relationship?

Richard Freeman and Wei Huang

Abstract: This paper uses Web of Science and Pubmed data on scientific papers and the impact factor of the journal in which they are published and the citations received by the paper to assess research collaborations between Chinese-based researchers and Chinese-named authors on research publications produced in China and in the US in the 1990s and 2000s. It finds

(1)   A huge rise in the share of addresses from China in publications and citations.

(2)   Increasing partnership in publications between US and China. 

(3)   Many Chinese-named researchers conducting research in the US, with the share of Chinese names on publications associated with higher impact factors and citations.

(4)   A growing number of Chinese researchers with US research experience doing research in China, producing publications with higher impact factors and citations.

(5)   Greater US-China collaborations from US organizations with higher Chinese proportions of researchers.

       These results give a positive answer to the title question. Yes, Chinese and US researchers have a special relationship with benefits accruing to research in both localities.

 

 

 

2. When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times

David Cutler, Wei Huang and Adriana Lleras-Muney

(Paper link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20156)

Abstract: Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been documented previously, the reasons why the effect of education on income, health and health behaviors varies is not well understood. We build on previous literature documenting that cohorts graduating in bad times have lower wages and poorer health for many years after graduation, compared to those graduating in good times. We investigate whether more educated individuals suffer smaller income and health losses as a result of poor labor market conditions upon labor market entry. We confirm that a higher unemployment rate at graduation is associated with lower income, lower life satisfaction, greater obesity, more smoking and drinking later in life. Further, education plays a protective role for these outcomes, especially when unemployment rates are high: the losses associated with poor labor market outcomes are substantially lower for more educated individuals. Variation in unemployment rates upon graduation can potentially explain a large fraction of the variance in gradients across different countries.