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劳动 & 发展经济学workshop：Sex-Ratio Imbalance and Premarital Investments: The Implications of Imperfect Commitment

发布日期：2017-10-20 02:31    来源：北京大学国家发展研究院

劳动 & 发展经济学workshop

时间：2017年10月20日（周五）14：00－15：30 pm

地点：北大国发院/中国经济研究中心小教室

主持人：赵耀辉、雷晓燕、陈欣欣、王亚峰；张晓波、李力行、席天扬

主讲人：易君健 (新加坡国立大学)

题目：Sex-Ratio Imbalance and Premarital Investments: The Implications of Imperfect Commitment

摘要：We propose a model of imperfect commitment within marriage, and show how this affects premarital investments in children. A male-biased sex ratio induces families with a son to increase total investments, and to shift the composition towards physical capital and away from human capital. Empirical evidence from the China Family Panel Studies survey is consistent with the predictions. When the sex ratio is biased towards males, parents of boys, relative to those of girls, are more likely to migrate, and to increase housing investment at the expense of lower child educational investment. Our results highlight the different roles of different forms of capital in multidimensional marriage matching.

主讲人简介：

Junjian is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on Medical and Health Economics, Labor and Demographic Economics, Economic Development, Chinese and Asian Economies, Economics of Human Capital, Education, Household Behavior and Family Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Econometrics. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011.

Homepage: http://www.junjianyi.net/ 

 


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