Son Preference and Human Capital
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Qingfeng Wang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
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Project Citation:
Wang, Qingfeng. Son Preference and Human Capital. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-09-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E111702V1
Project Description
Summary:
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In our model, decisions about the quantity and quality
of children are interdependent and are influenced by a son preference. A son preference
substantially widens the gap between the quality of female and male children,
and increases the possibility of having more children to realize this
preference. An increase in the level of son preference lowers the average level
of education, especially for female children, while for households with a son
preference, having a female birth at each birth order significantly increases the
probability of having more children, with a magnitude which is much larger than
that suggested in Dahl and Moretti (2008). More interestingly, once such
households have a son, there is a significant reduction in that household’s likelihood
of having more children. Furthermore, our findings have established the causal
effect of a son preference on the quantity and quality of children within a
family.
Scope of Project
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Population Economics;
labor economics;
human resources
Geographic Coverage:
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China
Data Type(s):
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census/enumeration data
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