讲座题目：Schooling More with Less: Long-Term Impacts of a Primary Duration Reform in Mid-20th Century China

主讲人：王一平

讲座时间：2025年10月15日（星期三）10:00-11:00

讲座地点：沙河校区13号楼215

主讲人简介：王一平，北京大学国家发展研究院在读博士生；研究方向涵盖劳动经济学、公共经济学及人口与发展经济学，主要关注教育制度改革、生育与人力资本积累、以及社会结构性外部性的微观识别与长期效应评估；其研究成果发表于 Journal of Public Economics与Journal of Population Economics等国际学术期刊，并参与国家社科重大专项、国家自然科学基金项目及亚洲开发银行政策咨询研究。

讲座摘要：Can shortening primary school duration improve human capital in resource-scarce settings? This paper examines China's 1950s-60s reform that reduced primary school from six to five years. Exploiting staggered county-level rollout, we find that duration reduction increased primary completion by 40%, raised total schooling by 0.6 years, and improved adult cognitive skills by 0.2 standard deviations, household income by 20%, and financial assets by 35%. We develop a model showing that under voluntary enrollment and binding household constraints, reducing credential requirements lowers barriers to completion, with effects concentrated in the poorest provinces. These results highlight that when household constraints bind tightly, reducing barriers to credential completion can enhance educational attainment and adult outcomes.

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