How Birth Ratio in A Family Affects Household Happiness?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.054How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender ratio, Family Happiness, Empirical Research

Abstract

For a quite long time, in Chine, the gender ratio of children in Chinese families has shown a statistical fact that it is constantly increasing and seriously deviating from the normal range, which is 103-107. The causes of the imbalance in the sex ratio of the children are extremely complex, while the consequences are extremely serious as well. This paper uses CHIP survey data, taking the household consumption expenditure on non-essential goods as a proxy variable for the household happiness, and using the least squares estimation and the maximum likelihood estimation to make empirical analysis, comparing the differences in household happiness with different children’s gender. The research results show that daughters can bring higher level of happiness to the family than what sons can. This conclusion may have certain guiding significance for solving the problem of China’s gender ratio imbalance.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lin Jin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - How Birth Ratio in A Family Affects Household Happiness?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 288
EP  - 294
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.054
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.054
ID  - Jin2021
ER  -