新经济时期的子女性别和父母幸福感 阅读全文
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Title | Gender of Children and Parents’ Happiness in New Economic Period
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作者 | 陆方文 刘国恩 |
Author | Lu Fangwen and Liu Gordon |
作者单位 | 中国人民大学经济学院;北京大学国家发展研究院 |
Organization | School of Economics, Renmin University of China;Peking University |
作者Email | lufangwen@ruc.edu.cn; gordonliu@nsd.pku.edu.cn |
中文关键词 | 幸福感 子女性别 重男轻女 |
Key Words | Happiness; Gender of Children; Son preference. |
内容提要 | 改革开放30多年来,中国的社会经济环境发生突飞猛进的变化。长期高居不下的性别比和重男轻女的传统文化,使一些人想当然地认为男孩有助于提升父母的幸福感;但本文通过实证分析指出,在新的经济时期,答案并非如此。借助第一胎子女性别的外生性,研究发现,在婴幼儿以及中小学读书阶段,子女的性别对父母幸福感无显著影响。但到了结婚生子阶段,儿子显著降低父母的幸福感,住房价格加剧了这一影响。传统上期待的养儿防老功能在新时代也没有体现出来,老年父母与儿子住在一起的比例并不更高,儿子也降低父母老年时期的幸福感。 |
Abstract | After the reform and open-up for more than 30 years, the social and economic conditions have experience great change in China. The long-term high sex ratio and the traditional son preference make some people think for sure that son helps to improve the happiness of parents. However, our study shows that in the new economic period, the answer is not as expected. Making use of the exogeneity of the gender of the first-born child, this study finds that the gender of kids or teenagers has no effect on their parents’ happiness. But when they are up to marriage, sons significantly reduce parents’ happiness, which is exacerbated by housing price. The traditionally expected function of raising son for the elderly is missing in the new era; the chance of parents living together with a son is not higher than they do with a daughter, and son also reduces the happiness of elder parents. |
文章编号 | WP929 |
登载时间 | 2015-09-30 |
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