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Child Gender, Intergenerational Kinship and Parental Labor Market Outcomes
Author(s) -
Wang Qing
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12177
Subject(s) - grandparent , daughter , economics , labour economics , preference , affect (linguistics) , kinship , demographic economics , margin (machine learning) , work (physics) , psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , political science , mechanical engineering , communication , machine learning , anthropology , computer science , law , microeconomics , engineering
This paper provides new evidence of the effects of child gender on parental labor market outcomes. Using data from the C hina Health and Nutrition Survey, I document a son premium on the intensive margin of parental labor supply in two‐parent families with one child. Parents with a newborn to a 6‐year‐old son have higher labor supply than parents with a daughter in the same age group. A further examination indicates that boys are likely to have better access to grandparent‐provided childcare than girls owing to grandson preference, and this allows parents with a preschool‐aged son to work more. The intensification of market work associated with having a son may affect economic outcomes over the lifecycle of parents through labor market attachment. This paper thus sheds light on the important distributional effects of family ties and culture on economic outcomes.