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DecThe Impact of the Three Gorges Damon Local Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation
Speaker：LIU Chong
School of Economics of Peking University
Moderator：LIU Ruiming
National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China
Time: Dec.14, 2018（Friday）14:00-15:30
Venue：Meeting Room 815, Chongde Building West Wing (Keyan Building Block A）
Abstract：
Using the initial impoundment of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in 2003—an event hydrologists suspect having induced permanent climate changes in the vast Yangtze river basin—as a natural experiment, we identify differentiated adaptations among rural households with different endowment. In response to the decreasing precipitation downstream in the spring, households with limited access to market and finance adapt by increasing the cropping area to compensate the sizable 14% reduction in yield, while the resourceful, rich households in contrast, choose to migrate out for more non-farm opportunities, suggesting differentiated adaptations may have long-term distributional effect in welfare.
Speaker Profile：
Liu Chong is assistant professor of School of Economics, Peking University and short-term advisor of the World Bank. He is also a Doctor (2013) of applied economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and Post Doctor at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Liu’s research fields include public economics, development economics and political economics. In recent years, he has published more than 20 papers in domestic and foreign well-known journals, including Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters, Economic Research Journal, China Economic Quarterly, The Journal of World Economy, Journal of Financial Research, etc. Besides, he has presided over many research projects such as Natural Science Foundation of China and Research Fund of Research Center for Rural Economy.