Geng, Yining ORCID: 0000-0003-0964-7831
(2018)
Impact of Family Planning Policy on Gender Inequality: Evidence from China.
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Abstract
The investments parents make in their children can be gender specific. I study the impact of family planning policies on gender-specific outcomes. Empirically, this paper uses China’s Family Planning Policy (FPP), enacted in 1971, to understand how a reduction in the number of children in a family can generate gender-specific outcomes. I mainly use the diff-in-diff strategy to compare the educational outcomes of boys and of girls born before and after the FPP was implemented. I find that while post-FPP-born children generally complete higher levels of education, this effect is particularly stronger for girls. This finding is robust to (1) using the diff-in-diff-in-diff strategy by incorporating another dimension of variation: different fertility constraints imposed by the FPP on the ethnic majority Han than those imposed on ethnic minorities; and (2) using a different measure of educational outcomes: the probability of pursuing an education beyond the compulsory education period. In addition, I document that the FPP also has an impact on changing women’s preference for their child’s gender. Post-FPP-born women show a more pronounced change in gender attitudes and exhibit less son preference than their male counterparts.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Family planning, Fertility, Education, Gender Inequality |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2020 10:01 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2024 07:54 |
DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3179403 |
Open Access URL: | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i... |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3082426 |