Gender of Children, Bargaining Power, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in China

Wu, Xiaoyu

doi:10.1353/jhr.2011.0014

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“…In Chinese tradition, it is believed that only boys can support their parents and carry on the legacy of their ancestors (Lee, 1999). Furthermore, a mother's bargaining power within the household would rise if the first-born child was a son (Li & Wu, 2011). The enforcement of the OCP in 1980 made the sex of children more important to prospective parents (Edlund et al 2013;Qian, 2009).…”

Section: Endogeneity and The Instrument Variablesmentioning

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China Economic Review

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“…To avoid the sex-selection problem, we use the first-born child sample (Li & Wu, 2011). Despite the abnormal sex ratio of the overall population in China, the sex ratio of the first-born is largely normal.…”

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2020

China Economic Review

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“…On average, daughters transfer less to parents relative to sons (224 and 405 yuan, respectively). This is reasonable because China is still affected by the patrilineal family system, where daughters become a member of the husband's family after marriage and lose financial independence (Li and Wu, 2011). To further investigate the network of transfers, we estimate the transfer derivatives for daughters and sons separately.…”

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The Motives of Intergenerational Transfer to the Elderly Parents in China: Consequences of High Medical Expenditure

2013

Health Economics

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The support for the elderly is facing big challenges with the problem of population aging. Transfers from adult children could partly insure elderly parents against low income and high medical expenditure. There are two main motives for transfers in the literature, namely altruism and exchange. Using data from a new household survey of people aged 45 and above in China, we estimate the transfer derivatives with the adjustment of medical expenditure in elderly parents’ income. We find a large negative impact of adjusted income on transfers at the lower end of income distribution, which is consistent with the altruistic motive. Evidence on the exchange motive is found only for sons, but not for daughters. In addition, there is evidence on the “exchange-for-service” motive, which interprets transfer as a payment to parents’ family services, such as taking care of grandchildren.

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“…However, it was only in the recent years that the economics literature related to the One-Child policy emerged (e.g., Zhang and Spencer 1992;Schultz and Zeng 1995;Li and Zhang 2006b;Li and Wu 2011). The lack of survey data at the individual level might be the major reason.…”

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Family size and maternal health: evidence from the One-Child policy in China

2011

J Popul Econ

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In this paper, we examine the impact of family size on maternal health outcomes by exploiting the tremendous change in family size under the One-Child policy in China. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1993-2006, we find that mothers with fewer children have a higher calorie intake and a lower probability of being underweight and having low blood pressure; meanwhile, they have a higher probability of being overweight. This would occur if a smaller family size increases the food consumption of mothers, leading underweight women to attain a normal weight and normal weight women becoming overweight. Robust tests are performed to provide evidence on the hypothesis that the tradeoff between children's quantity and mother's "quality" is through a budget constraint mechanism, that is, having more children decreases the resource allocated to mothers and affects their health outcomes.

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Gender of Children, Bargaining Power, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in China

Cited by 88 publications

References 39 publications

One-child policy and childhood obesity

One-child policy and childhood obesity

The Motives of Intergenerational Transfer to the Elderly Parents in China: Consequences of High Medical Expenditure

Family size and maternal health: evidence from the One-Child policy in China

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