学术讲座一 Academic Lecture Ⅰ

主讲人Presenter：Xiaoyu Xia https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/xiaxi45701/xiaoyu-xia

讲座时间Lecture Time：5月17日（周一）19:00-20:00

讲座地点Lecture Address：4-A107

讲座流程Process：

Essex-川农项目及奖学金介绍 5-10分钟 Project and scholarship introduction 5-10minutes

互动提问，10-20分钟 Interactive question 10-20minutes

讲座主题Topic：Development and Labor Economics: Fact-Based Worldview

讲座内容概要Abstract: The vast majority of people are wrong about the state of the world. Development and labor economics can tell us the facts about the world. From this lecture, you will know why dividing the world into the "developed world" and the "developing world" is an outdated view and hopefully gain new knowledge about the state of the world.

学术讲座二 Academic Lecture П

主讲人Presenter：Yikai Wang https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/wangy75400/yikai-wang

讲座时间Lecture Time：5月18日（周二）16:20-17:20

讲座地点Lecture Address：4-A107

讲座流程Process：

Essex-川农项目及奖学金介绍 5-10分钟 Project and scholarship introduction 5-10minutes

互动提问，10-20分钟 Interactive question 10-20minutes

讲座主题Topic：China's Rapid Growth and Pension System

讲座内容概要Abstract: How do private firms contribute to China's rapid growth and how to design an optimal pension system to sharing the high growth across generations? In this talk, Yikai explains how to use a two sector (state and private) growth model to study China's growth and answer the above questions.