论独生子女家庭人力资本投资的性别偏好

Gender Preferences in Investment of Single-child's Human Capital

家庭是孩子人力资本投资的主要单位,人力资本理论存在性别盲点,忽略了人力资本投资的社会性别因素。本文从社会性别视角研究独生子女家庭人力资本投资行为,分析了影响独生子女家庭人力资本投资的人口因素、经济因素和社会性别文化因素。研究发现,独生子女家庭中女孩人力资本投资得到了积极的改善,但社会性别仍然影响着家庭人力资本投资的性别偏好,独生子女家庭通过人力资本投资“表现社会性别”。

Household is the basic unit for investment in children s human capital.Most human capital theories overlooked the effect of gender on household human investment.This paper explored the factors that influence investment in single-child s human capital in gender perspective,such as economic factor,demography factors and gender culture factors.The study finds that investment in single-child human capital is still gendered in some extent,although investment in female human capital has been improved a lot in sin...