嘉    宾：杨   宇 助理教授 北京大学

主持人：Yuta Suzuki 助理教授 tyc1286太阳成集团

时    间：2024年11月27日（周三）14:00-15:30

地    点:  tyc1286太阳成集团徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A511

内容简介：

The singles rate is high for men in rural areas and women in cities. Motivated by this geographic distribution by gender, we study the effects of spatial sorting on local marriage and quantify its aggregate implications. We first show empirical patterns between marriage rate and three related shifters: a preference shifter that women pursue a hypergamous match while men prefer the opposite, an education shifter where women out-educate men over time, and a sectoral shifter in which women have comparative advantage in the service sector disproportionally located in larger cities. We then build a spatial equilibrium model with multi-sector and -skill production, migration and local marriage market, and quantify the relative contribution of the three shifters to observed spatial distribution and time trend of marriage rates.

演讲人简介： 

Yu (Alan) Yang is an assistant professor at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He obtained Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. His research areas are labor and public economics, on topics such as education, migration, spatial inequality, fertility and aging. His work has been published in academic journals including Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.