时   间：4月18日(周二)下午4:15-5:30

地   点：金禾中心874教室（大教室）

报 告 人：叶茂亮

叶茂亮，哈佛大学公共政策博士，现任厦门大学经济学院财政系及王亚南经济研究院助理教授，并曾在中国人民大学任教。研究领域是公共经济学、实验与行为经济学以及劳动经济学、发展经济学、政治经济学中的微观问题。目前主要研究亲社会行为（例如公共物品的自愿提供、合作、协调、团队激励），社会偏好，生活质量、主观福利及心理健康，分配、再分配及相关心理和态度等。在Journal of Comparative Economics及Social Indicators Research等知名国际刊物发表论文，是Journal of Public Economics， Social Choice and Welfare，China Economic Review，Journal of Happiness Studies及 Applied economics等刊物的审稿人。

题目： The Long-term Effect of Early Adversity on Mental Well-being: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Famine in China (with Qianping Ren)

摘要：This paper, using a difference-in-difference method with the variation of birth cohorts and regional excess death rates, tries to quantify the effects of the 1959-1961 Great Famine in China on mental well-being of the survivors, which we use depression, happiness, and life satisfaction as the proxies. We find that, exposure to the Great Famine in early childhood caused significantly negative effects on mental well-being. Our falsification test shows there is little difference in the above outcomes between the two cohorts born in 1963-1964 and 1965, which validates our difference-in-difference method. Our findings clearly show the long-term impact of adverse events such as famine in early childhood on mental well-being. Moreover, the negative effects on mental well-being hold even after we control for physical health and social-economic outcomes, which supports the psychological trauma theory from psychology.

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