The bond between father and daughter: Paternal gender-role attitudes and daughters’ education in China

期刊: 《Educational Guide》 DOI:10.64649/yh.eg.issn3078-4794.20260417 全文阅读 返回期刊

Tang Jianjing

Faculty of Business Management, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai 519087, China.

摘要

Which parent’s gender-role attitudes shape the next generation’s schooling? In the couple-linked China Family Panel Studies, fathers’ 2014 attitudes predict their daughters’ schooling: one index point of paternalegalitarianism predicts 0.40 more years of education and a 4.5 percentage point higher college-attendance probability. There is no comparable association for sons. Mothers’ attitudes show no robust association for either sex, and the parent difference is significant at both margins, though within-household sibling comparisons cannot separate the two parents. The asymmetry sits in the normative items and survives controls for paternal employment and income and the requirement that attitudes predate the schooling decision.

关键词

Gender-role attitudes; Intergenerational transmission; Daughters’ education; Intrahousehold allocation; China

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