講座主題:Mother matters: The causal impact of parental education on children’s educational investment in China
主講嘉賓:陳媛媛 上海财經大學高等研究院教授
講座時間:2023年11月3日 10:00-13:00
講座地點:沙河校區學院11号樓308會議室
嘉賓簡介:陳媛媛,上海财經大學高等研究院教授、人口流動與勞動力市場研究中心主任、上海市楊浦區第十七屆人大代表、民建市委委員、民建上海财經大學委員會主委。她長期深耕于我國城鎮化過程中的勞動力流動及流動人口子女的教育問題。其團隊自2008年起就開始對上海20所公辦和民辦農民工子弟小學四至五年級學生進行大型的實地調查,并進行持續跟蹤,建立了上海市流動兒童教育情況數據庫。陳媛媛老師通過編寫著作《城市的未來-流動兒童教育的上海模式》,編著《為了明天——中國教育制度改革》,并在《光明日報》《财經》《财新》《澎湃》等主流媒體發表多篇流動兒童教育問題的研究報告,呼籲教育公平。除此,自2010年以來,陳媛媛老師及其團隊共舉辦了九屆《城市的未來:外來兒童教育政策研讨會暨校長論壇》。
内容摘要:We use the college enrollment expansion in China beginning in 1999 to estimate the causal effect of parental education on educational investment in children. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, we find that mothers’ schooling significantly increases out-of-school educational spending on children, and children's attendance of tutorial classes, as well as non-monetary investment such as mother's hours in tutoring children, while there's no such causal effect from fathers’ schooling. We have verified a few channels through which parental education affects investment, such as family resources, bargaining power, and parenting style. A potential explanation for the divergent impacts observed between maternal and paternal education is that educational reforms amplify mothers’ bargaining power within the household, consequently leading to increased expenditure on children.