講座主題：Education Expansion and Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from China

主講嘉賓：萬廣華 複旦大學特聘二級教授、世界經濟研究所所長

講座時間：2023年4月4日14:00-16:00

講座地點：沙河校區學院11号樓308會議室

嘉賓簡介：萬廣華，複旦大學特聘二級教授、世界經濟研究所所長，聯合國、亞洲開發銀行前高級官員；清華大學中國農村研究院學術委員會委員；《經濟研究》、《中國農村觀察》和China and the World Economy等期刊的編委。多次獲得省部級研究獎，包括張培剛發展經濟學著作獎、中國農村發展研究獎、《管理世界》及Regional Studies Association優秀論文獎等；入選上海“國家級高層次人才”，數次進入《世界名人錄》。根據最新RePEc（IDEAS personal ranking compilation)對經濟學家的排名，在全球居前5%，在亞洲和中國居前3%。

内容摘要：Education has long been perceived as a “great equalizer”. However, despite universal rises in schooling years, income distribution has been worsening world-wide. In this paper we propose a method that decomposes the contribution of a variable to a change in inequality into three components: the mean, the dispersion, and the price components. The method is then used to investigate the roles of the education variable in driving down China’s wage inequality from 2010 to 2018. We found that: (1) education contributes more than 30% to the total wage inequality in both 2010 and 2018; (2) education expansion accounts for 66% of the overall decline in wage inequality; (3) the 66% inequality-reducing effect are made of 90% benign dispersion and price components and 24% malign mean component. The benign components are attributable to the improvement in educational equity and the decrease in college premium.