主    题：Welfare, Work and Poverty: China’s Social Assistance 20 Years After
演讲人：高琴，哥伦比亚大学副教授
主持人：李实，北京师范大学
时    间：6月24号（周五）下午4:00-5:30
地    点：后主楼1620

摘    要：
In this talk, Dr. Gao provides a systematic evaluation on the effectiveness and impacts of China’s primary social assistance program, the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao. Dibao is currently the world’s largest welfare program in terms of population coverage and serves the dual functions of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining political stability. How effective has Dibao been in targeting the poor and alleviating poverty? Have the Dibao recipients been dependent on welfare or able to move from welfare to work? How has Dibao affected their consumption patterns and subjective well-being? Do they use the Dibao subsidy to meet survival needs or invest in human capital? Are they distressed by the stigma associated with receiving Dibao or do they become more optimistic about future and enjoy greater life satisfaction because of the Dibao support? And finally, what policy lessons can we learn from the existing evidence in order to strengthen and improve Dibao in the future? Through her own investigations and drawing upon a wide range of existing studies, Dr. Gao offers answers to these questions to help us gain an in-depth understanding of Dibao’s performance and learn policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond.

个人简介：
Qin Gao is Associate Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work and Research Associate at the Columbia Population Research Center. She is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution, Beijing Normal University, and a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Dr. Gao’s research examines poverty, income inequality, and social welfare policies and programs in China and their cross-national comparisons. Dr. Gao also investigates social protection for rural-to-urban migrants in China and Asian immigrants in the US. She has published widely in leading interdisciplinary journals such as the China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Social Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Service Review, and World Development. Dr. Gao’s forthcoming book, Welfare, Work, and Poverty: China’s Social Assistance 20 Years After (Oxford University Press) evaluates the performance and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program, the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (Dibao), and offers timely policy implications and solutions. She is working on a new book that examines the Chinese social welfare system in transition and its impact on poverty and income inequality.