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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26492 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26492 |
Where Have All the Children Gone? An Empirical Study of Child Abandonment and Abduction in China | |
Xiaojia Bao; Sebastian Galiani; Kai Li; Cheryl Long | |
发表日期 | 2019-12-02 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In the past 40 years, a large number of children have been abandoned or abducted in China. We argue that the implementation of the one-child policy has significantly increased both child abandonment and child abduction and that, furthermore, the cultural preference for sons in China has shaped unique gender-based patterns whereby a majority of the children who are abandoned are girls and a majority of the children who are abducted are boys. We provide empirical evidence for the following findings: (1) Stricter one-child policy implementation leads to more child abandonment locally and more child abduction in neighboring regions; (2) A stronger son-preference bias in a given region intensifies both the local effects and spatial spillover effects of the region's one-child policy on child abandonment and abduction; and (3) With the gradual relaxation of the one-child policy after 2002, both child abandonment and child abduction have dropped significantly. This paper is the first to provide empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of the one-child policy in terms of child trafficking in China. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26492 |
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/584171 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xiaojia Bao,Sebastian Galiani,Kai Li,et al. Where Have All the Children Gone? An Empirical Study of Child Abandonment and Abduction in China. 2019. |
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