时间：5月5日（周三）10：00-11：30

线下地点：北大经济学院606会议室

线上参会方式：腾讯会议

                            链  接：https://meeting.tencent.com/s/TJ9xpbt5qL5X

                           会议号：266 550 628

                           密  码：32123

主持人：（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、雷晓燕、张丹丹

     （经院）秦雪征、石菊、王耀璟、袁野

主讲人：Minhee Chae（南开大学经济学院）

报告题目：

Fertility and the Gender gap in cognitive skills（生育率与认知能力的性别差异）

报告摘要：

This paper examines the relationship between fertility and the gender gap in cognitive skills in a society where son preference is prevalent. Drawing on Becker’s Quantity-Quality trade-off model, we empirically test if the trade-off between quantity and quality of children is larger for daughters than that for sons. To consider the endogenous nature of the demand for children, we exploit an exogenous variation in fertility due to China’s family planning policy. We utilise the policy intensity information collected from hundreds of county gazetteers as an instrument for family size. The main results suggest that an additional sibling widens the gender gap in cognitive test scores by 33.2% of a standard deviation in the rural sample and 9.8% in the urban sample. The pattern is more pronounced in regions with a higher proportion of people who prefer a son over a daughter, and among households who face tighter budget constraints. We also provide suggestive evidence that our findings are strongly associated with belief in a son’s role to carry on family lineage in Confucian tradition.

主讲人简介：

Minhee Chae is an assistant professor at School of Economics, Nankai University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in economics from the Australian National University. Her research interests include development, inequality and gender.