Economics Seminar（2016-03）

Topic: Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Speaker: Wang Fei，Renmin University of China
Time: Tuesday, March.22 from 2:00-3:30pm
Place: Room 217, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract:
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment, i.e., the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), to examine whether trade liberalization affects child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low NTR levels and removed the uncertainty associated with annual renewals of China's NTR status. We find that the PNTR was significantly associated with the rising incidence of child labor in China. One percentage point decrease in average export tariff raises the odds of child labor by 1.5 percentage points.    

Introduction:

Wang Fei is  an assistant Professor, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China.His research interests mainly focus on development Economics, Population Economics, Labor Economics, Program Evaluation, Applied Micro-econometrics.

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