主讲人:
罗唯（暨南大学经济学院助理教授）
主持人:
（北大全健院）潘聿航
时间：
2024年9月18日（周三）
10:00-11:30
地点:
北京大学经济学院107会议室
主讲人简介:
Wei Luo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Jinan University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her primary research interests lie in labor economics, development economics, and public economics. Her work has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. In addition, she serves as an anonymous reviewer for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, China Economic Review, and China Economic Quarterly. Her work received the Best Paper award from the China Association for Labor Studies.
摘要:
Industrial robots can improve workplace safety by performing hazardous tasks on behalf of workers. This paper examines the impact of industrial robots on workplace safety in China. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in robot exposure reduces annual workplace accidents and fatalities by 0.100 and 0.0133 cases per thousand population, compared to sample averages of 0.122 accidents and 0.0351 fatalities. These findings are robust to an instrumental variable strategy and various robustness checks. Our analysis of injuries in household surveys and Baidu search activities reinforces these results. Using an accounting framework, we show that the safety improvement is not driven by the mechanical effects of robot-induced employment reduction. Instead, within-occupation improvement in workplace safety plays a more crucial role.
