Effects of School Closure on Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
Effects of School Closure on Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.3464744
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发表时间：
2020-10
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通讯作者：
Gang Xie;Lei Zhang
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作者：
Gang Xie;Lei Zhang
本文以2000年代初中国大规模农村小学关闭为研究对象，考察了学校关闭对家庭劳动供给的影响。使用CHNS 1991-2006和CHIP 2007-2008数据集和差异中的差异方法，我们发现学校关闭使女性的年总收入增加了近40%，这来自工资收入的增加。我们进一步表明，对女性收入的重大积极影响是由于他们的迁移反应：女性往往从事临时农村到城市的迁移，以照顾孩子后，学校关闭。我们没有发现男性的收入和移民决策的影响。我们的研究结果支持单一的家庭模型。
This paper studies the effects of school closure on household labor supply exploiting China’s large-scale rural primary school closing during the early 2000s. Using the CHNS 1991-2006 and CHIP 2007-2008 datasets and a difference-in-differences approach, we find that school closure increases female total annual income by nearly 40 percent, which comes from increases in wage income. We further show that the significant positive impacts on female income are attributable to their migration responses: females tend to engage in temporary rural-urban migration to care for children following school closure. We find no effects on male income and migration decisions. Our findings support the unitary model of household.