Empirical Research on the Impact of Child Gender on Household Happiness

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210407.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sex ratio, household happiness, empirical research

Abstract

The gender of children affects household happiness, labor supply of parents, economic expenditure and consumption capacity. Exploring the influence of children’s gender on family happiness can help us to understand the micro family decision-making mode and family consumption structure, which is of importantly theoretical and practical significance. This paper use China Household Income Project (CHIP) data to study and analyze the influence of the gender of children on family happiness by taking the average monthly minimum consumption of non-necessities as the proxy variable of family happiness. The results show that if the gender of a child is male, this will exert a negative influence on the average monthly household expenditure on non-necessities, that is, a boy has an inhibitory effect on family happiness.

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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  - Niu Yuxin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/08
TI  - Empirical Research on the Impact of Child Gender on Household Happiness
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 86
EP  - 89
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.017
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.017
ID  - Yuxin2021
ER  -