主題：Residential Awareness and Environment Improvement: Evidence from the River Chief System in China
主要內容：River pollution has been a problem in many developing countries. As the largest developing country in the world, water pollution is highly prominent in China. Over 30% of surface water in China was reported contaminated round the end of 2016. Considering this detrimental situation, China initiated a flagship institutional innovation on river governance called the River Chief System (RCS), which requires the government to disclose information on administrative responsibilities to the public and invite public supervision. Using 1,156 self-collected questionnaires in 2018 and 2019 from residents in Shanghai, this paper exploits the variation in the timing when each town/subdistrict in Shanghai establishes the local River Chief Office to identify the causal effect of information disclosure on rivers’ environment from the perspective of public participation. Our model expands the traditional public goods theory to a discrete-choice application, and shows that the RCS can potentially lead to outcomes closer to the social optimal. The empirical results confirm the river quality improvement under the RCS, and further show that local residents’ willingness and actual action to involve in river management increases due to the RCS, which may play a critical role in the sustainability of river management.
專家姓名：李天舒
工作單位：南京審計大學
專長和學術成就：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。相關研究成果發表于Nature Sustainability、The World Bank Economic Review、Land Economics和Advances in Water Resources等經濟學和環境科學領域的國際期刊。
專家簡介：李天舒，南京審計大學城市發展研究院助理教授，畢業于美國弗吉尼亞大學，獲經濟學博士學位。曾在弗吉尼亞大學的達頓商學院做水資源方面的跨學科博士后研究，并參與多項美國國家科學基金項目。
時間：2021-10-12 13:30:00
地點：經管樓335