性别比例失衡对农村家庭创业的激励机制研究——基于农村自营工商业的分析

The Incentive Mechanism of Gender Imbalance on Rural Family Business:Evidence from Rural Self-support Industrial and Commercial Enterprises

本文利用北京大学国家发展研究院2009年"农村金融调查"的数据,分析了性别比例失衡对农村家庭创业的影响。本文发现,在性别比例失衡较严重的地区,由于婚姻市场的择偶压力,男孩家庭创业的可能性较高。本文还进一步发现,此类男孩家庭的创业具有较强的可持续性,这有利于农村经济的长期发展。

Using the data of 2009 'Rural Finance Survey' conducted by the national development research institute of Peking University, this paper analyzed the effects of gender imbalance on rural family business. It is found that in the areas with serious gender imbalance, the families having boys are more likely to run family business because of the mate selection pressure from marriage market. And the business of this kind of families has strong sustainability, which is conductive to the long-term development of rural economy.