Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

Following the death of Mao in 1976, agrarian decision-making shifted from the collective to individual households, unleashing rapid growth in farm output and unprecedented reductions in poverty. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of male

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背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集基于中国914个县的土地改革时间数据，研究土地改革对性别选择的影响。研究发现，土地改革后，头胎为女孩的二胎性别比显著上升，从每1.1个男孩/女孩增加到1.3个男孩/女孩，并估计土地改革导致了约100万'缺失女孩'，占农村性别比例上升的一半。数据涵盖了健康、教育、农业等多个领域，强调经济政策变化与社会行为的关联。