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发布日期:2018-12-11 11:26    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

The Schooling of Adult Children and the Smoking Cessation of Elder Parents in China

时间: 2018年12月14日(周五)14:00 – 15:30

地点: 北大国发院致福轩会议室

主持人:雷晓燕、张丹丹、赵耀辉

报告人: 周羿

摘要: The upward intergenerational transmission of health from children to parents is increasingly important as the elder parents today will live with their children for a period longer than ever before. Are parents of well-educated children have a healthier lifestyle? The answer is indefinite in theory. On one side, well-educated children can transfer more economic resources to parents and thus their parents can afford more cigarettes and alcohol. On the other, well-educated children have more health knowledge, which can spill over to their parents. Using China’s compulsory schooling reform in the mid-1980s as a quasi-experiment, this study examines the causal effects of children's schooling on parents’ smoking behaviors. The instrumental variables estimations show that the likelihood of parents’ smoking cessation increases with children’s schooling. Such a spillover effect, which is mainly driven by daughters, is especially stronger among parents with less schooling.

报告人简介:周羿,北京大学社会研究中心助理教授。他的研究兴趣包括人口经济学、组织社会学和人口老龄化。他的学术成果发表于Population and Development Review, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Chinese Sociological Review, 《经济研究》和《经济学(季刊)》等国内外期刊上,并曾获第十八届安子介国际贸易研究奖优秀论文奖。