题   目：Parenting Center and Children Development

报告人：陆   毅 教授（清华大学）

主持人：刘承芳 教授

时   间：2025年1月8日 星期三 10:00-11:30

线下地点：北京大学王克桢楼 508会议室

讲座内容

We design, implement, and evaluate a center-based parenting intervention program that is integrated with existing infrastructure in rural China. The two-year trial was conducted in 22 less developed counties in a northwestern province of China and targeted 1,720 children between the ages of 6 and 36 months across 100 villages. We find that the center-based parenting intervention significantly improved the cognitive and language skills of children in the treatment by 0.26 SD and 0.23 SD, respectively. Evidence suggests the primary mechanisms driving the effects are an increase in parental/caregiver time investments in their children as well as caregivers’ improved attitudes towards and perspectives on childcare. Our results show that center-based parenting can be an effective approach that is low cost, labor-saving and easy to scale up. Our study also offers policy insights for improving human capital and wellbeing, especially for developing regions where the government has limited financial resources and labor force.

报告人简介

陆毅，清华大学经济管理学院中信讲席教授，经济系系主任，入选国家级人才计划，北京市卓越青年科学家，首届中国青年经济学家奖和首届孙尚清发展知识研究与交流青年学者奖获得者，2024年度全球前2%顶尖科学家（经济学领域），2007年获香港大学经济工商学院博士学位，曾执教于香港大学经济工商学院和新加坡国立大学经济系。主要从事中国经济的研究工作，重点关注经济增长、公共财政和全球经济治理等，迄今在American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy，Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics，Journal of Development Economics, 以及《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》等国内外一流经济学杂志发表论文数十篇。获第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社会科学）等奖项，主持社科基金重大项目和自科基金面上项目等，多项资政报告获得中央领导人肯定性批示和中央部委采纳。