现代产业经济学系列讲座第293期

时    间：2026年4月14日（周二）15:30-17:00

地    点： 复旦管院史带楼303室

题    目：Richer and Busier? The Trend of Time Allocation in China

主讲人：Lintong Li (李林橦) 助理教授

主持人：石襄禺 助理教授

​内容简介：We document the trend in time allocation in China from 2008 to 2024, utilizing the latest available time-use survey data in China. In contrast to recent empirical evidence from Bick et al. (2018) and Boppart and Krusell (2020), we find that market hours per person increased by 3 to 6 hours per week in urban areas of China, accompanied by a 60 percent increase in the wage rate over the same period. However, wage rates and market hours are strongly negatively correlated in the cross-sections. Meanwhile, non-market hours per person declined sharply by the same magnitude. To reconcile these facts, we build a quantitative life-cycle heterogeneous agent incomplete-market model with home production and a pay-as-you-go pension transfer to conduct an accounting. Quantitatively, we find that rising income uncertainty, changing demographic structures, and capital-augmenting productivity growth in home production help explain the rise in market hours. The calibrated model can reasonably well recover the observed empirical trend. Our results suggest that it is crucial to account for non-market hours, demographic structures, and incomplete markets when analyzing the long-run trend in labor supply.

个人简介：Lintong Li is an assistant professor of economics at the National School of Development, Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in economics from Princeton in 2024. Before that, he received his bachelor’s degree in physics and economics from Peking University in 2017. His research interests are in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics, with a focus on the role of micro frictions in propagating aggregate shocks and long run trend of labor supply.