题  目：ResidentialAwareness and Environment Improvement: Evidence from the River Chief System in China

报告人：李天舒 南京审计大学博士

时  间：2021.10.11,8:30-10:00

地  点：经管学院 206

Abstract

Riverpollution has been a problem in many developing countries. As the largestdeveloping country in the world, water pollution is highly prominent in China.Over 30% of surface water in China was reported contaminated round the end of2016. Considering this detrimental situation, China initiated a flagshipinstitutional innovation on river governance called the River Chief System(RCS), which requires the government to disclose information on administrativeresponsibilities to the public and invite public supervision. Using 1,156self-collected questionnaires in 2018 and 2019 from residents in Shanghai, thispaper exploits the variation in the timing when each town/subdistrict inShanghai establishes the local River Chief Office to identify the causal effectof information disclosure on rivers’ environment from the perspective of publicparticipation. Our model expands the traditional public goods theory to adiscrete-choice application, and shows that the RCS can potentially lead tooutcomes closer to the social optimal. The empirical results confirm the riverquality improvement under the RCS, and further show that local residents’willingness and actual action to involve in river management increases due tothe RCS, which may play a critical role in the sustainability of rivermanagement。

Keyword:River Chief System, Water Pollution, Information Disclosure, PublicParticipation, Public Goods

报告人简介：李天舒，南京审计大学城市发展研究院助理教授，毕业于美国弗吉尼亚大学，获经济学博士学位。曾在弗吉尼亚大学的达顿商学院做水资源方面的跨学科博士后研究，并参与多项美国国家科学基金项目。主要研究方向为环境经济学，发展经济学，和区域经济学，目前的研究课题包括水权交易、水质管理、碳排放和扶贫政策等多个涉及环境与发展方面的课题。相关研究成果发表于Nature Sustainability、The World BankEconomic Review、Land Economics和Advancesin Water Resources等经济学和环境科学领域的国际期刊。