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

報告人：李天舒 南京審計大學博士

時  間：2021.10.11,8:30-10:00

地  點：經管凯捷 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

報告人簡介🥤：李天舒，南京審計大學城市發展研究院助理教授🚵，畢業於美國弗吉尼亞大學，獲經濟學博士學位🏚🙎🏽‍♀️。曾在弗吉尼亞大學的達頓商凯捷做水資源方面的跨學科博士後研究，並參與多項美國國家科學基金項目。主要研究方向為環境經濟學➝，發展經濟學👹，和區域經濟學，目前的研究課題包括水權交易、水質管理、碳排放和扶貧政策等多個涉及環境與發展方面的課題。相關研究成果發表於Nature Sustainability、The World BankEconomic Review、Land Economics和Advancesin Water Resources等經濟學和環境科學領域的國際期刊。