主题 | Topic：Pain or Anxiety? The Health Consequence of Rising Robots Adoption in China
时间 | Time：12月10号（周五）｜Dec. 10th (Friday), 14：00 – 15:30
地点 | Venue：文澴楼414｜Room 414，WENHUAN
主讲 | Speaker
刘啟仁老师现为广州大学经济与统计学院教授，博士生导师，广州市宣传思想文化青年英才。2016年毕业于厦门大学经济学院，获经济学博士学位，2016年7月至2020年1月担任暨南大学经济学院副教授，中国国际贸易学会理事，2016年福建省优秀博士论文获得者（应用经济学唯一）。在《经济研究》、《管理世界》等重要学术期刊发表论文10多篇，现为《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》、《中国工业经济》和《金融研究》等期刊匿名审稿人。学位论文获 “福建省优秀博士论文”和“上海市研究生优秀成果奖”（均为应用经济学科唯一入选论文，2016年和2014年），论文曾获得“安子介国际贸易研究奖”、“广东省哲学社会科学优秀成果奖”“中国平安励志论文奖”等奖项。主持国家社科基金一般项目和福建省社科青年博士论文项目各1项，参与教育部哲学社会科学研究重大课题攻关项目、国家自然科学基金青年项目和其它省部级课题多项。
研究领域 | Research Interests
国际贸易、汇率和应用微观计量
International Trade, Exchange Rate, Applied Microeconometrics
摘要 | Abstract
The rising adoption of industrial robots in China is radically changing the role of workers in the production process. While reducing the possibility of workers being injured, it has also greatly increased workers' inner anxiety. Compared to previous studies which focus on its impact on the economy, our paper may be an earlier study to investigate the relation between robot adoption and health consequences of manufacturing workers using data from China. Our research demonstrates that the adoption of robots can improve the physical health of workers. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation increase in our prefecture-level of robot exposure is associated with a 12.8 percentage points reduction in the probability of experiencing illness or injury. Further analysis suggests that the low-skilled and the middle-aged are the main beneficiaries, while we detect no improvement in disease severity. Finally, our finding has documented that robot penetration may be an additional driving force for the high incidence of mental anxiety in China, especially for low-skilled workers.
