题目：
Can Clan Culture Help Escape ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’?
时间：
2021年3月26日（周五）14:00
地点：
邵逸夫科学馆第五会议室
主讲人简介：
赵国昌教授，硕士毕业于英国威廉希尔公司，博士毕业于澳大利亚国立大学，现为西南财经大学经济与管理研究院教授、博士生导师。在Journal of Development Economics、Journal of Financial Research、China Economic Review、Energy Economics、经济学（季刊）、统计研究等国内外知名期刊发表学术论文20余篇，国家自然科学基金青年科学基金获得者，参与包括国家自然科学基金委面上项目、澳大利亚科学基金委（Australian Research Council）发现（Discovery）项目、世界银行“社会保护与中国乡-城移民的就业动态研究（Social Protection and employment dynamics of the rural-urban migrants in China）”在内的多项科研项目。担任Cities, Journal of Population Economics, China & World Economy, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, Education Economics, PLOS ONE, Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, China Economic Review, 以及中国人口.资源.环境,、经济学（季刊）、 财经科学、产业经济评论等20余个中英文期刊的匿名审稿人。
Abstract：
Domestic violence is the extreme manifestation of gender inequality. This study examines the causal effect of clan culture on domestic violence using prefectural level aggregate data from China. To deal with the potential endo- geneity problem arising from omitted variables, we resort to the instrumental variable approach and use the proportion of cultivated land for rice as the instrument. We find that clan culture reduces the propensity for domestic violence, and the effect is mainly driven by rural areas. Furthermore, we use nationally representative micro data and focus on a rural sample to shed light on the potential channels through which clan culture matters. The empirical results show that clan culture has different effects on gender norms and the clan members’ connection between genders, but the differential effects do not tend to cause conflicts and, thus, domestic violence between couples. Based on a careful discussion, we conjecture that clan culture may (partially) affect domestic violence through gender norms and clan member connection.
