报告时间：2026年6月18日（周四）14：30
报告地点：文化中心201会议室
主讲人：山东大学 连暐虹教授
摘 要：
Educational equality, as well as education as a channel for promoting economic equality, are among the most sought-after social welfare ideals in countries around the world. However, in practice, competitive environments are often thought to impede progress in realizing these goals. We game theoretically analyze and implement real-effort experiments to study the effect of competition and related policies on educational investments and outcomes. Students from different economic backgrounds engage in competition by exerting effort in learning various subjects and making educational investments, under varying allocation mechanisms, investment costs, examination difficulties and investment limits. Our theoretical model predicts that when everyone's investible funds exceed the equilibrium investment level, competitive behavior is primarily influenced by the cost of investment and the disutility of effort. Our experimental results show that altering investment costs has a limited impact on competitive behavior, whereas employing simpler learning tasks and imposing caps on high investments can more effectively curb over-investment. A policy implication is that to safeguard educational equity, governments may consider assisting low-income families through measures such as tax subsidies, simplifying examinations, and restricting excessive educational spending, although interventions aimed at adjusting educational costs directly show limited effectiveness.
个人简介：
连暐虹，山东大学经济研究院教授、博士生导师，山东大学特聘教授，山东大学理论与实验经济学研究中心（CREATE）联合主任，清华大学经济科学与政策实验室（ESPEL）创建人之一。此前，担任过清华大学经济管理学院助理教授、香港中文大学助理教授、欧洲大学研究院费尔南·布罗代尔资深学者。担任North American Journal of Economics and Finance等多份国际学术期刊客座编辑与编委成员，担任大陆、香港、台湾、新加坡等政府科研资助机构评审专家，担任多所高校教师晋升外审专家，担任31种期刊匿名评审人，多次获评杰出评审人。研究领域包括行为经济学、实验经济学、应用微观经济学，研究主题涵盖不确定性决策、合作协调、信任互惠、信念偏误、社会偏好等行为问题，擅长采用实验设计与数据分析等研究方法。主持过面上、青年等多项国家自然科学基金项目、教育部科研项目、香港研究资助局项目，结题评“优”，并多次在学术会议上做主旨演讲与专题报告。研究工作发表于Nature Communications、PNAS、American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings)、Games and Economic Behavior、Experimental Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization等国际知名期刊。
