近日，北京大學(xué)國家發(fā)展研究院經(jīng)濟學(xué)教授易君健的合作論文“Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development（出生季度、性別不平等與經(jīng)濟發(fā)展）”被勞動經(jīng)濟學(xué)領(lǐng)域頂級期刊Journal of Labor Economics接收。論文合作者為北京大學(xué)經(jīng)濟學(xué)院秦雪征教授和浙江大學(xué)經(jīng)濟學(xué)院張皓辰研究員。

論文標(biāo)題: 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.

論文鏈接：https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/737993

作者簡介：

易君健，北京大學(xué)博雅特聘教授，北大國發(fā)院經(jīng)濟學(xué)教授，同時擔(dān)任北大國發(fā)院學(xué)術(shù)委員會主任、《經(jīng)濟學(xué)》（季刊）執(zhí)行主編和Journal of Comparative Economics副主編。他的研究興趣主要集中于人工智能經(jīng)濟學(xué)、醫(yī)療健康經(jīng)濟學(xué)、勞動經(jīng)濟學(xué)、發(fā)展經(jīng)濟學(xué)、計量經(jīng)濟學(xué)和行為經(jīng)濟學(xué)。他的科研成果先后發(fā)表于經(jīng)濟學(xué)、管理學(xué)、人口學(xué)、公共衛(wèi)生等領(lǐng)域內(nèi)的國際頂級學(xué)術(shù)期刊，包括Journal of Political Economy、Review of Economic Studies、Management Science、Demography、Lancet和Proceedings of National Academy of Science等