题目：Family Background, Government Policy, and Doing Business in China

报告人：兰小欢

时间：2017年4月14日13:30-14:45

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B会议室

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

报告人简介：

兰小欢，美国弗吉尼亚大学经济学博士，复旦大学经济学院助理教授，复旦大学中国经济研究中心研究员，主要研究和中国相关的发展经济学及公共经济学。

Abstract: This paper investigates how the political background of parents affect children’s involvement in business in China. We first evaluate the advantage of having cadre parents for becoming a business owner, using multiple waves of a nationally representative survey between 2005 and 2012. Then we document that the effect varies greatly with respect to government policies. Specifically, by exploiting variation in government spending across provinces and the Fiscal Stimulus Package in 2009, we find that the advantage of having cadre parents is significantly larger in regions where governments spend more on business-related activities. Further evidence from firm-level subsidies and subjective evaluation of factors that matter for career success also sheds light on the mechanism.