摘要
如何促进男童和女童基础教育均衡发展是目前教育界的重要议题。本文通过理论和实证研究探寻子女性别对家庭基础教育投入决策的影响,并在此基础上识别其影响机制。研究表明,与男孩相比,女孩更可能面临"教育关心程度低、入学年龄大、辍学可能性高"的教育风险。究其原因,父母的"教育对儿子收入影响大于女儿"的价值判断标准导致了女孩更可能"晚入学";预期"未来对儿子的经济依赖大于女儿"的父母倾向给予男孩更多的教育关注,并降低男孩的辍学可能性。因此,要解决家庭内部男童和女童基础教育均衡发展问题,需从家庭传统的价值判断标准和养老思想入手。
Balanced development of compulsory education of girls and boys has been a hot topic in educa- tional world in China. We explore whether children gender affects parents＇ decision making about compul- sory education or not through theoretical and empirical study. We find that girls are more likely to suffer the academic risks of ＂lower education attention, later enrollment, and earlier dropout＂. Based on this, we in- vestigate the reasons for son preference in parents＇ allocating of resources. First, if parents believe that they will get more help from sons than daughters in the future, they tend to pay more attention to their sons＇ education and reduce their likelihood of dropping out of school. Second, if parents think that educa- tion affects their sons＇ income potential more than daughters ＇, they tend to enroll their sons earlier. Hence, it would be efficient to induce the balanced development of compulsory education of girls and boys if policy makers could transform families＇ traditional value standard and pension viewpoint.
出处
《人口学刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第3期14-24,共11页
Population Journal
基金
中央高校基本科研业务费资助的博士研究生科研课题项目
关键词
教育投入决策
男孩偏好
基础教育
educational investment decision, son preference, compulsory education
