【题目】A Long Day at School: Paternalistic Education, Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Performance

【时间】2023年4月13日（周四）下午2:00

【地点】大学城校区文2栋301

【主讲人】王睿新博士   哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）经济管理学院

【主持人】董志强教授   华南师范大学经济与管理学院

【摘要】

  Paternalistic education is ubiquitous, particularly in East Asian countries. However, by influencing or constraining choices of students, paternalistic education may disempower students and “crowd out” their intrinsic motivation (Bénabou and Tirole, 2003). Using data from the China Education Panel Survey, this paper studies how paternalistic education at school shapes students’ academic motivations and performances by estimating the effect of evening school session, which on average extends a school day to 14 hours and includes almost all study time within the control of school. We find that evening school session significantly reduces students’ test scores and self-assessed scores, especially in Chinese and English. Additionally, evening school session undermines students' intrinsic motivation for study, and creates mental health issues. We identify causal inferences by exploiting the variation in sunset time and boarding status and discuss alternative interpretations. Furthermore, we find that the negative impacts of evening schooling sessions are particularly strong when the students are exposed to teachers who face more pressure from teaching evaluation, student promotion rate and school administration.

【主讲人简介】

    王睿新，现任哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）经济管理学院助理教授。先后获大连理工大学经济学学士 (2008年)，香港科技大学经济学硕士 (2009年)，荷兰蒂尔堡大学经济学博士（2015年)。曾任职香港浸会大学商学院，并在国际食物政策研究所（IFPRI）短期实习。他的主要研究领域为发展经济学与公共经济学。目前主持、参与了国家和省部级项目多项，2019年起，连续参与组织了多轮中国企业创新创业调查（ESIEC）。他的研究成果发表于Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization，The China Quarterly，International Tax and Public Finance，China Economic Review，经济学（季刊），经济科学等中英文一流期刊，并曾获工业与信息化部优秀研究成果一等奖（2022），首届中国劳动经济学者论坛年会（2016）最佳论文奖。