一、报告题目
　　Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China's Imperial Examination System
　　二、报告人
　　白营，香港中文大学经济系助理教授，香港中文大学经济系助理教授，香港科技大学社会科学博士。研究领域为发展经济学、经济史、政治经济学。已在 Econometrica, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics 等国际顶级期刊发表多篇论文。
　　三、报告时间
　　2016年4月5日（周二）下午3:00-4:30
　　四、报告地点
　　知新楼B423聚贤报告厅
　　五、报告摘要
　　Imperial China employed a civil examination system to select scholar bureaucrats as ruling elites. This institution dissuaded high-performing individuals from pursuing some modernization activities, such as establishing modern firms or studying overseas. This study uses prefecture-level panel data from 1896-1910 to compare the effects of the chance of passing the civil examination on modernization before and after the abolition of the examination system. Its findings show that prefectures with higher quotas of successful candidates tended to establish more modern firms and send more students to Japan once the examination system was abolished. As higher quotas were assigned to prefectures that had an agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1643) of more than 150,000 stones, I adopt a regression discontinuity design to generate an instrument to resolve the potential endogeneity, and find that the results remain robust.
　　六、主办单位
　　山东大学经济学院