and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in … their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …