摘要：近日，北京大学国家发展研究院经济学教授易君健的合作论文“Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development（出生季度、性别不平等与经济发展）”被劳动经济学领域顶级期刊Journal of

近日，北京大学国家发展研究院经济学教授易君健的合作论文“Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development（出生季度、性别不平等与经济发展）”被劳动经济学领域顶级期刊Journal of Labor Economics接收。论文合作者为北京大学经济学院秦雪征教授和浙江大学经济学院张皓辰研究员。

论文标题: Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development

摘 要：

Like in many countries, we find that people born in the fourth quarter have better lifecycle outcomes in China. But interestingly, this birth quarter effect (BQE) in China is significantly larger for females than for males. We conjecture that the gendered BQEs are driven by the seasonality in agricultural production, which affects intrahousehold neonatal investment differentially by gender due to son preference. Our empirical evidence supports this mechanism. Furthermore, exploiting weather shocks to agricultural productivity and the quasi-experimental economic reform in 1979, we show that economic development reduces the gender gap in BQEs by relaxing household resource constraints.

论文链接：https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/737993

易君健，北京大学博雅特聘教授，北大国发院经济学教授，同时担任北大国发院学术委员会主任、《经济学》（季刊）执行主编和Journal of Comparative Economics副主编。他的研究兴趣主要集中于人工智能经济学、医疗健康经济学、劳动经济学、发展经济学、计量经济学和行为经济学。他的科研成果先后发表于经济学、管理学、人口学、公共卫生等领域内的国际顶级学术期刊，包括Journal of Political Economy、Review of Economic Studies、Management Science、Demography、Lancet和Proceedings of National Academy of Science等

来源：北大国发院