讲座人：杨卿栩，香港大学

讲座时间：2026年6月3日上午10:30-12:00

讲座地点：北京大学国家发展研究院承泽园校区249教室

讲座题目：Medals and Mindsets: How Women's Olympic Competitiveness Advances Gender Equality

内容简介：Can female athletic success reshape beliefs about women's competitive capacity and advance gender equality? We study this question in the context of China's return to the Olympics, combining comprehensive athlete records from 1984--2004 with census data. Exploiting variation in the timing of each prefecture's first female Olympic medalist and differential exposure across birth cohorts, we find that exposure to hometown female medalists  narrows gender gaps in education, while male medalists produce no comparable effects. To address potential endogeneity, we employ a shift-share instrument leveraging changes in Soviet presence (shaped by boycott and dissolution) as an exogenous shock to medal opportunities across sports. We further show that media coverage framing female achievements as evidence of women's competitiveness helps explain these effects, and that female medalists shift fathers' beliefs about daughters' competitive capacity rather than directly inspiring girls. Our findings suggest that publicized female success can challenge gender stereotypes and promote equality.

主讲人简介：杨卿栩，香港大学商学院博士后，博士毕业于北京大学光华管理学院。主要研究方向为劳动经济学、法和经济学和数字经济，研究成果发表于《管理世界》、《Review of Economic Studies》、《Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization》等国内外权威期刊。

组织者：

（国家发展研究院 ）李力行、席天扬、王轩、徐化愚、易君健、黄清扬

（经济学院）刘冲、吴群峰、曹光宇、年永威、施新政

（光华管理学院）张晓波、仇心诚