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    Three Generations of Changing Gender Patterns of Schooling in the People's Republic of China

    McGarry, Kathleen; Sun, Xiaoting | April 2018
    Abstract
    The phenomenon of son preference in the People’s Republic of China and throughout much of Asia has been well documented. However, changing economic conditions, such as increases in educational attainment and employment opportunities for women and the rise in the prevalence of one-child families, have likely changed the incentives for parents to invest in daughters. In this paper we take advantage of data spanning three generations of Chinese families to examine the evolution of educational attainment for boys and girls and importantly the relative levels of schooling of each gender. We also use variation in the timing of compulsory schooling laws and the implementation of the one-child policy to assess the effect of these policy measures on the relative educational levels. We find a substantial narrowing of the gap between the schooling of boys and girls, so much so that girls now have more schooling on average than boys. In addition, public policy initiatives had a larger effect in rural than urban areas.
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    McGarry, Kathleen; Sun, Xiaoting. 2018. Three Generations of Changing Gender Patterns of Schooling in the People's Republic of China. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8290.
    Keywords
    Gender
    Gender Equality
    Women's Education
    Public Education
    Equity In Education
    Educational Statistics
    Gender Bias
    Gender Inequality
    Gender Policy
    Gender Discrimination
    Comparative Analysis
    Preschool education
    Basic education
    Educational policy
    Sociological Analysis
    Sex Discrimination
    Equal Opportunity
    Women's Rights
    Primary school supervision
    Discrimination in higher education
    Elementary education
    Literacy
    School environment
    Right to education
    Educational evaluation
    Gender-based analysis
    Sex discrimination against women
    Equal rights
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    McGarry, Kathleen
    Sun, Xiaoting
    Theme
    Education
    Gender
     
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