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Title: Essays on Economics of the Family

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: In the first chapter, I explore the role of gender discrimination in children’s investments by parents. I specifically examine whether parents in urban China devote more household resources, specifically education, health, and total expenditures, to girls than to boys. The empirical literature has extensively examined trends in the sex ratio at birth and the effect of gender on the extensive margin of fertility. Much less of the existing literature has explored the impact of gender on the intensive margin of parental inputs mainly because of lack of individual child-level data, especially in urban China. This is an important area for economic research to help disentangle child gender bias and provide insight on the well-being of Chinese children. To answer my research question, I use unique data, Chinese Child Twin Survey (CCTS) that includes family expenditure information for individual children within the family. Estimating the causal effect of child gender on parental investments requires boys and girls to live in families with similar observable and unobservable characteristics. This assumption may be violated in China for two reasons.

Url: https://open.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/3097/

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Authors: Dai, Yinlin

Institution: Clemson University

Department: Economics

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Pages: 1-111

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Gender

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