Research

Family Size and Child Migration: Do Daughters Face Greater Trade-Offs than Sons?
(with Christine Ho and Sharon Xuejing Zuo)
Submitted

Abstract
Daughters may be less likely to migrate with parents because they tend to have more siblings in societies with strong son preference. Exploiting exogenous variation in twinning as an instrument, we find that a one unit increase in family size decreases the probability that a daughter migrates by 12.5 percentage points but has negligible effects on sons in China. The negative associations for daughters are stronger when migration restrictions are more stringent. The results are indicative of gendered family size trade-offs in a novel aspect of parental investment and highlight the need to relax migrant children’s education constraints.
Conference Presentations (*: presented by coauthors): AASLE 2023, AMES 2023 (China)*, AMES 2023 (Singapore), CCER Summer Institute*, Exeter Diversity and Human Capital Workshop*, GLO Global Conference 2022, MWIEDC 2023*, RES 2023*, SEHO 2023*.
Draft Slides (Coming soon)
Social Institutions and Low Birth Rates: Quantitative Evidence from South Korea and the United States
(with Christine Ho)

Abstract
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Conference Presentations : SEHO 2024.
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Research Assistant to Prof. Christine Ho, Singapore Management University, 2022-2024
Research Assistant to Prof. Jing Li, Singapore Management University, 2021

Child Migration and the Labor Supply of Migrant Mothers
(with Kaizhi Yu and Hong Zou)
Statistical Research (in Chinese, 统计研究), 2022