December 13-15, 2024
Beijing, China
BRIEF CONFERENCE PROGRAM
December 13, 2024 (Friday)
17:00-20:00 |
Registration (optional) & Reception Dinner |
CUFE 3rd Floor Chinese Buffet Host: Fanzheng Yang & Nina Yin |
December 14, 2024 (Saturday)
07:30-08:00 |
Registration |
Academic Hall North Building 6th Floor Host: Yulong Chen |
PARALLEL SESSION |
08:00-08:50 |
A-1 Rural-Urban Disparity and Poverty (Room: Academic 602) |
A-2 Education Investment and Human Capital (Room: Academic 603) |
A-3 Educator Human Capital (Room: Academic 606) |
PLENARY SESSION (Room: Academic 604| Tencent/VooV Meeting ID:920-644-029) |
08:50-09:30 |
Opening and Welcome Remarks |
The Release of the 16th China Human Capital Report-2024 |
09:30-09:40 |
Coffee Break |
09:40-10:55 |
Keynote Speech |
PARALLEL SESSION |
11:10-12:00 |
B-1 Online Session 1 (Room: Academic 602| Tencent/VooV Meeting ID: 829-664-516) |
B-2 Labor Mobility (Room: Academic 603) |
B-3 Human Capital and Firm Performance (Room: Academic 606) |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
CUFE 3rd Floor Cafeteria Host: Sophie Wang & Chen Huang |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
14:00-16:00 |
C-1 Online Training and Search of Job (Room: Academic 602) |
C-2 Labor Market (Room: Academic 603) |
C-3 Migration and Household Behavior (Room: Academic 604) |
C-4 Policy and General Topic (Room: Academic 606) |
16:00-16:15 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
16:15-18:15 |
D-1 Intergenerational Mobility (Room: Academic 602) |
D-2 Early Childhood Human Capital and Fertility (Room: Academic 603) |
D-3 Education (Room: Academic 604) |
D-4 Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities, and Health Outcomes (Room: Academic 606) |
D-5 Online Session 2 (Room: Academic 608| Tencent/VooV Meeting ID: 164-949-463) |
18:30-20:00 |
Conference Banquet &
Alumni Reunion |
Expert Restaurant Host: Ning Jia & Yi Zhang |
December 15, 2024 (Sunday)
10:00-12:00 |
Human Capital Project Round-Table Discussion (By invitation only) |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break
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PLENARY SESSION SCHEDULE
December 14, 2024
(Location: Academic 604; Tencent/VooV Meeting ID: 920-644-029)
(The time zone is Beijing Time)
PLENARY SESSION |
07:30-08:00 |
Registration/Reception (for in-person participants only) |
08:50-08:55 |
Opening and Welcome Remark Chair: Professor Zhiqiang Liu (State University of New York at Buffalo & Special-term Professor, Associate Director, CHLR) Speaker: Professor Haitao Ma(President, Central University of Finance and Economics) |
08:55-09:20 |
China Human Capital Report 2024 Chair: Professor Cynthia A. Bansak (St. Lawrence University & Special-term Professor, CHLR) Professor Belton M. Fleisher (Ohio State University & Special-term Professor, CHLR) Speaker: Professor Barbara M. Fraumeni (NBER & Special-term Professor, CHLR) Professor Haizheng Li (Principal Investigator, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
09:20-09:30 |
Invited Discussants for China Human Capital Report 2024 Chair: Professor Cynthia A. Bansak (St. Lawrence University & Special-term Professor, CHLR) Discussant: Fengyun Lei ( Former Vice Director, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs ) |
09:30-09:40 |
Tea/Coffee break |
09:40-10:40 |
Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Professor Haizheng Li (Georgia Institute of Technology) Speaker: Professor Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania) |
10:40-10:55 |
Q&A |
Brief Introductions
to the Specially Invited Speaker and Discussant
Keynote Speaker：
Dr. Petra E. Todd
EDMUND J. AND LOUISE W. KAHN TERM
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
Chair, Department of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania
Professor Todd is also a Research Associate of Penn’s Population Studies Center, NBER, and IZA. She serves on the editorial board of the International Economic Review and the Econometrics Journal. She is a fellow of the Econometrics Society and of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).
Her main fields of research are social program evaluation, labor economics, and microeconometrics. She has published papers on econometric methods for evaluating the effects of program/policy interventions, the determinants of cognitive achievement, testing for discrimination in motor vehicle searches, sources of racial and gender labor market disparities, pension program design and on conditional cash transfer programs.
She is currently working on projects analyzing the effects of personality traits on gender labor market disparities, evaluating the effects of grade retention in Portugal, analyzing the effects of local minimum wage policies in the US, and analyzing the effects of a nationwide preschool reform in Mexico.
Selected Publications
• "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme" (with J. Heckman and H. Ichimura), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 64 (4), October, 1997. This paper presents important insights into using matching methods for evaluating the effectiveness of job training programs.
• "Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence" (with John Knowles and Nicola Persico), Journal of Political Economy, February, 2001. The research investigates the presence of racial discrimination in motor vehicle searches.
• "Legal Activism, Private Philanthropy, and the Schooling of Southern Blacks, 1910 - 1960" (with James Heckman and John Donohue), in Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 2002. Explores the factors that influenced the education of Southern Blacks in the early 20th century.
• "On the Specification and Estimation of the Production Function for Cognitive Achievement" (with Kenneth I. Wolpin), Economic Journal, Feb., 2003. Focuses on the factors determining cognitive achievement and the appropriate econometric methods for its analysis.
• "Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design" (with Jin Yong Hahn and Wilbert van der Klauw), Econometrica, 2001. This work is significant in the field of causal inference using the regression discontinuity design.
Fengyun Lei
Mr. Fengyun LEI is a senior Diplomatic and Expert of China Association for International Science and Technology Cooperation (CAISTC) and a Research Fellow of Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
He has also served as the Science and Technology Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Austria, Chief Representative of the State Foreign Experts Affairs Administration in the UK, Deputy Director-General Level Science and Technology Diplomat at the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Deputy Director-General of the Education, Science, Culture, Health, and Economics and Technology Department of the State Foreign Experts Affairs Administration. He was the expert of the Science and Technology Diplomacy Expert Committee of the China Association for International Science and Technology Cooperation and the researcher at the China Association for International Talent Exchange and Development. Mr. Fengyun LEI is a senior member of the China Computer Federation, member of the China Poetry Society, and member of the Chinese Biographical Literature Society.
