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4月13日Seminar：Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
发布时间：2012-04-05
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主题：Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
主讲人：张舰
[Abstract] Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural areas, exploit political status for economic gain. Much existing research, however, compares the earnings of cadre and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated with success as entrepreneurs or in non-agricultural activities. The findings of this paper suggest a measurable return to cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only modest incentive to participate in village-level government. The paper does not find evidence that village cadres earn excessive rents from their positions. Given the increasing return to non-agricultural employment since China’s economic reforms began, it is not surprising that the return to working as a village cadre have also increased over time. Returns to cadre-status are derived both from direct compensation and subsidies for cadres and indirectly through returns earned in off-farm employment from businesses and economic activities managed by villages.
[作者简介]：张舰是中央财经大学经济学院讲师，应用经济学系副主任。他于2007年6月获美国加州大学(戴维斯)博士学位。张舰博士的主要研究领域为发展经济学、应用计量经济学、应用微观经济学、产业组织理论和中国经济。目前所从事的研究包括中国城乡教育差距以及农村劳动力转移对环境影响的实证研究，论文已发表于《Contemporary Economic Policy》等国际权威经济学杂志。张舰博士的教学课程包括发展经济学、计量经济学、微观经济学、产业组织、农业经济学以及中国经济专题。
主持人：罗楚亮副教授
时间：2012年4月13号下午2点半--4点
地点：北师大后主楼1610