主 题：Trade, Institution Quality and Child Health
摘 要
This paper examines the effects that trade have on child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) designated by the United Nations.
To solve the endogeneity of trade, we use Lin and Sim (2013) construction of trade cost based on Baltic Dry Index (BDI) as instruments of trade. We find that the expansion in trade leads to an increase in child mortality rate in autocracies but to no significant effect in democracies. To explain this finding, we show that in autocracies trade leads to a statistically significant and quantitatively large effect on environment degradation. In democracies on the other hand, environment does not deteriorate significantly after the expansion of trade.
主讲人：林发勤，澳大利亚阿德莱德大学和对外贸易大学经济学博士(双学位)，现为中央财经大学国际经济与贸易学院讲师(助理教授),兼任亚洲开发银行助理研究员。主要研究兴趣是国际经济学和发展经济学的因果效应实证研究、以及贸易引力模型的应用研究等，已经在European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature等期刊上发表7篇学术论文。具体参见个人研究网站http://linfaqin.weebly.com/
时 间：2013年12月6日星期五16:00-17:30
地 点：中财大厦二层通用教室2
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