When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas

IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q2 DEMOGRAPHY Demographic Research Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.4054/demres.2022.47.21
Hantao Wu, Ting Li
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BACKGROUND In China, a key feature of demographic transition is the abnormally high sex ratio, resulting in a shortage of brides. In addition, depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents have risen sharply in the last decade, and among these adolescents, boys in rural areas are most likely to be depressed. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of depression in a large number of rural boys. We hypothesize that upon perceiving the strong competition in the local marriage market, rural parents tend to increase educational investment to improve their sons’ relative standing in the market, thereby leading to high pressure and depression among rural boys. we constructed a difference-in-differences model featuring rich fixed to absorb invariant confounding factors and cohort trends across To ensure the of we studied the first the child’s gender.
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当投资适得其反:农村地区男孩的性别比例失衡和心理健康问题
背景在中国,人口结构转型的一个关键特征是性别比例异常高,导致新娘短缺。此外,在过去十年中,中国青少年的抑郁症状急剧上升,在这些青少年中,农村地区的男孩最容易抑郁。目的本研究调查了大量农村男孩的抑郁现象。我们假设,在感知到当地婚姻市场的激烈竞争后,农村父母倾向于增加教育投资,以提高儿子在市场上的相对地位,从而导致农村男孩的高压和抑郁。我们构建了一个差异中的差异模型,该模型具有丰富的固定到吸收不变的混杂因素和跨性别的队列趋势。
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Demographic Research
Demographic Research DEMOGRAPHY-
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3.90
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63
审稿时长
28 weeks
期刊介绍: Demographic Research is a free, online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The journal pioneers an expedited review system. Contributions can generally be published within one month after final acceptance.
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