时间：2026年10月23日（周五）10:00-11:30

地点：北大国发院承泽园246教室

主持人：雷晓燕、易君健

参与老师：张丹丹、李玲、刘国恩、黄炜

主讲人：蔡澍，暨南大学经济与社会研究院

摘要：Global child poverty persists partly because household-level policies miss unequal resource allocation within families. This paper examines whether empowering women through education can improve child welfare by exploiting China’s Compulsory Education Law as a natural experiment. Using data containing unique information on individual consumption and nutrient intake, we find that an additional year of maternal schooling increases child food expenditure by 9.7% and total expenditure by 12.5%, while reducing child poverty rate by 8.6 percentage points. Maternal education also improves child nutrition and preventive health care. These gains operate through reduced fertility, improved household economic resources, and enhanced maternal bargaining power. However, economic gains translate into better child health primarily in villages with limited food accessibility, where maternal education significantly improves anthropometric outcomes. Our findings highlight that empowering woman through education generates intergenerational impacts by reshaping intrahousehold resource allocation in favor of children.

主讲人简介：蔡澍，暨南大学经济与社会研究院教授，于北京大学中国经济研究中心获硕士学位，香港科技大学经济系获博士学位。主要研究领域为发展经济学、劳动经济学和健康经济学，关注人口流动、贫困、农村金融、健康老龄化和主观幸福感等问题。相关成果发表于Journal of Development Economics、European Economic Review、Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization、Journal of Population Economics等期刊。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、青年基金项目等。曾获中国经济学优秀博士论文奖、中国留美经济学会邹至庄最佳论文提名奖。现任Journal of Population Economics副主编、Journal of Happiness Studies联合主编。（更多详细信息可参考蔡澍老师个人主页：https://iesr.jnu.edu.cn/2019/0813/c17118a400462/page.psp）