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Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale of Land Reform and Sex Ratios in China
This paper examines the effect of income growth induced by 1978-84 land reform on the sex ratio imbalance in China
When:
November 27, 2012 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Where
Shuang Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow, SIEPR at Stanford University
RSVP Required by 5PM on November 26
This paper examines the effect of income growth induced by 1978-84 land reform on the sex ratio imbalance in China. Using variation in reform timing by county together with the absence of sex selection among first-born children, we compare the sex of the second child between families with a first girl and those with a first boy before and after the reform. Results show that following a first daughter, the second child is 5.5 percent more likely to be a boy after land reform. Better educated parents are substantially more likely to respond with sex selection.
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