我校将于2012年11月20日下午14:00,在九龙湖校区经管楼一楼报告厅举行授予香港中文大学张俊森客座教授仪式暨学术演讲活动。
张俊森教授是香港中文大学经济系伟伦讲席教授(Weilun Professor of Economics),社会科学院副院长(研究),经济系研究生部主任,经济与金融研究所主任,全球著名华人经济学家。1986年和1990年于加拿大麦克马斯特大学(McMaster University)先后获得经济学硕士与博士学位。现任著名学术期刊Journal of Population Economics的主编、多个国际知名期刊的编委,同时还担任American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics等20多个国际高水平学术期刊的匿名审稿人,多个国家研究基金的评审人。
张教授的研究领域包括劳动与人口经济学、应用经济学,研究主题涉及犯罪、生育、婚姻、教育、代际转移、婚姻迁移、性别偏见与养老等重要的社会议题,并善于用计量方法分析上述领域的问题。在Journal of Political Economy,Journal of International Economics,Journal of Development Economics,Journal of Human Resources,Journal of Labor Economics, The Review of Economics & Statistics等国际高水平学术期刊上发表论文80余篇。
演讲题目:Marriage and Crime: Male Biased Sex Ratios in China
摘要:Sex ratios at birth in China rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s, setting the stage for an unprecedented social experiment. We focus on the effect of surplus men on crime. Between 1988 and 2004 crime rates nearly doubled. Using province-year level panel data, we find that male sex ratios can account for a sizeable proportion of the overall rise in crime. We hypothesize that adverse marriage market conditions drive the found association. In addition, we present corroborating marriage and labor market evidence。