近日，我院张皓辰研究员（通讯作者）和北京大学经济学院秦雪征教授、北京大学国家发展研究院易君健教授合作撰写的论文“Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development”，被劳动经济学领域顶级期刊Journal of Labor Economics接收。

论文标题: Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development

摘要：Like in many countries, we find that people born in the fourth quarter have better lifecycle outcomes in China. But interestingly, this birth quarter effect (BQE) in China is significantly larger for females than for males. We conjecture that the gendered BQEs are driven by the seasonality in agricultural production, which affects intrahousehold neonatal investment differentially by gender due to son preference. Our empirical evidence supports this mechanism. Furthermore, exploiting weather shocks to agricultural productivity and the quasi-experimental economic reform in 1979, we show that economic development reduces the gender gap in BQEs by relaxing household resource constraints.

论文链接：https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/737993

作者简介：

张皓辰，浙江大学经济学院“百人计划”研究员，博士生导师。2019年本科毕业于北京大学经济学院；2024年毕业于北京大学国家发展研究院，获经济学博士学位。主要研究领域为劳动经济学、发展经济学、公共经济学，重点关注产业结构与产业政策、人力资本与性别平等、文化与经济发展等议题。论文接收或发表于Journal of Labor Economics、Economic Development and Cultural Change、Journal of Economic Geography、《经济学》（季刊）等国内外权威期刊。研究成果获评北京大学优秀博士学位论文、中国留美经济学会最佳学生论文奖等。