题    目：Urban Electricity Powers Rural Farms: Evidence from China’s First Adoption of Electric Irrigation

嘉    宾：崔潇濛 副教授 暨南大学

主持人：王春华 副教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时    间：2024年5月8日（周三）14:00-15:30

地    点:  上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A511

内容简介：

This paper investigates the effect of agricultural technology on rural welfare by analyzing China’s first adoption of electric irrigation. In 1924, rural areas of Wujin county in Jiangsu province unexpectedly gained access to electric irrigation from a nearby urban power plant. Based on county-level panel data from 1912 to 1933, difference-in-differences analysis and the synthetic control method show positive effects on farmland values but not on farm wages. Further analysis using newly published household-by-crop-level data illustrates that access to electric irrigation increased crop yields and the irrigated area for rice, the most water-sensitive crop, and reduced agricultural labor inputs. 

演讲人简介：

Xiaomeng Cui is an associate professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He obtained his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California, Davis and received undergraduate education from Renmin University of China. His research fields include environmental and resource economics, agricultural and development economics, and applied econometrics. The general theme of his recent research centers around understanding agricultural adaptation to environmental change. His work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics.