| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19153 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19153 |
| Land Reform and Sex Selection in China | |
| Douglas Almond; Hongbin Li; Shuang Zhang | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-06-20 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Following the death of Mao in 1976, agrarian decision-making shifted from the collective to individual households, unleashing rapid growth in farm output and unprecedented reductions in poverty. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of male children following rural land reform. Among second births that followed a firstborn girl, sex ratios increased from 1.1 to 1.3 boys per girl in the four years following reform. Larger increases are found among families with more education and in counties with larger output gains due to reform. Proximately, increased sex selection was achieved in part through prenatal ultrasounds obtained in provincial capitals. The land reform estimate is robust to controlling for the county-level rollout of the One Child Policy. Overall, we estimate land reform accounted for roughly half of the increase in sex ratios in rural China from 1978-86, or about 1 million missing girls. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Law and Economics ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Economic Systems ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19153 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576827 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Douglas Almond,Hongbin Li,Shuang Zhang. Land Reform and Sex Selection in China. 2013. |
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