JDS | 中国城乡流动人口的儿子偏好与人力资本投资【转】

*中文标题和摘要系简单翻译，可能存在部分错误，请以英文为准

摘要：

我们使用几个数据集来研究在中国城乡流动人口家庭的人力资本投资中是否存在儿子偏好。我们发现农民工家庭中存在儿子偏好，这导致学龄女孩随父母迁移的概率低于男孩，而学龄前儿童则不存在这种差异。我们还发现，(1) 多子女流动家庭更倾向于带儿子外出，而不是带女儿外出；(2) 对于流动人口家庭，男学生家长在子女教育上的花费更多可以归因于额外的上学费用。我们的研究结果表明，当制度安排导致流动人口的高昂教育成本时，重男轻女不利于当代中国女孩的人力资本投资。

Abstract:

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants’ households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts that school-age girls will migrate with their parents – a difference that is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than they take their daughters, and (2) parents of boy students spend more on their children’s education can be largely explained by the extra costs of schooling for migrant households. Our results suggest that son preference is detrimental to human capital investment for girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of schooling for migrants.

原文链接（点击“阅读原文”跳转）：

https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1961750

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撰文编辑：王煜正

审核：龙文进