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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 张俊森教授 (经济学系) |
| 梁志明博士 (经济学系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-007-9026-x |
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摘要This article investigates parental investments in single-child households. It shows that son preference triggers more parental investments in children and its effects are stronger on investments in sons. A rise in the sex ratio creates a marriage market squeeze. It, however, has ambiguous effects on investments in children, which depends on how strong these investments are as measures for influencing children's marriage probability. A rise in the sex ratio may particularly raise investments in daughters and lower investments in sons, or vice versa, or it may induce more or less parental investments in both sons and daughters. If the sex ratio and preference of sons are correlated, then the effect of the preference for sons on investments in children is generally ambiguous. If the sex ratio is influenced by parental health investments, then son preference induces a higher sex ratio. However, the higher sex ratio has ambiguous effects on the subsequent parental investments before a child's marriage. We also show that parental preference of child services over a child's marital status may explain parental investments.
着者Leung MCM, Zhang JS
期刊名称Review of Economics of the Household
出版年份http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2008
月份6
日期1
卷号6
期次http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/2
出版社SPRINGER
页次91 - 110
国际标準期刊号1569-5http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/239
语言英式英语
关键词Gender preference; Marriage; Parental investment
Web of Science 学科类别Business & Economics; Economics; ECONOMICS
