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Family Size and Child Migration: Do Daughters Face Greater Trade-Offs than Sons?

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  • Ho, Christine

    (School of Economics, Singapore Management University)

  • Wang, Yutao

    (School of Economics, Singapore Management University)

  • Zuo, Sharon Xuejing

    (Fudan University)

Abstract

Daughters may be less likely to migrate with parents because they tend to have more sib-lings in societies with strong son preference. Exploiting exogenous variation in twinning as an instrument, we find that a one unit increase in family size decreases the probability that a daughter migrates by 12.5 percentage points but has negligible effects on sons in China. The negative associations for daughters are stronger when migration restrictions are more stringent. The results are indicative of gendered family size trade-offs in a novel aspect of parental in-vestment and highlight the need to relax migrant children’s education constraints.

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  • Ho, Christine & Wang, Yutao & Zuo, Sharon Xuejing, 2024. "Family Size and Child Migration: Do Daughters Face Greater Trade-Offs than Sons?," Economics and Statistics Working Papers 1-2024, Singapore Management University, School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:smuesw:2024_001
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    Keywords

    Child Migration; Family Size Trade-offs; Son Preference; Parental Investment;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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