【主讲】Albert Park (香港科技大学)
【主题】Are Only Children More Depressed?: Evidence from China's One Child Policy (with Lingwei Wu)
【时间】2016年5月25日 (周三) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼701室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Sib-ship structure plays a significant role in children’s psychological development. This paper examines the causal effect of growing up as an only child on subjective well-being outcomes, with the latter measured by self-rated happiness and depression. To address the endogeneity of fertility choice within the family, we take advantage of the exogenous fertility shock of China’s One-Child Policy which affected different cohorts differently and was implemented with different degrees of enforcement across provinces. Since the counterfactual of singletons are first-borns with successive siblings, we pay close attention to the first-born sample. We find that being an only child makes individuals more depressed and less happy.
