9001诚信金沙社会学院系列讲座
2017年第33讲总第503讲
人口学研究系列讲座第5讲
主讲人：Freda Yanrong WANG
香港科技大学讲师
主持人：Samir KC
9001诚信金沙亚洲人口研究中心人力资本与发展方向负责人
讲座时间：2017年6月29日星期四, 10:00-11:30
讲座地点：校本部B417
讲座简介：
Individual life course behavior is commonly interacting with macro contexts and historical events. One prominent example is China’s one child policy on the birth outcome among Han Chinese. Under this policy, the number of births is decided by the state. However, individuals voiced their fertility intentions vias the timing of giving births. Due to the traditional son preference, the empirical analyses show that there is a significant sex difference in the only birth interval for Han couples with only one child, especially during the period when the policy was strictly enforced. Further, additional analysis illustrates that for Han couples with more than one child, there is no significant difference in the first birth interval, compared with non-Han couples. This indicates that there is prenatal sex selection in comtemporary China under the one child policy.
主讲人简介：
Freda Yanrong WANG accepted the PhD degree in Social Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Aug, 2016. Since Sep. 2016 to Jan. 2017, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Social Science Division, and later worked as a lecture since Feb in HKUST. Her areas of interests include family structure, marriage formation, fertility, population aging, children's development and social stratification. One of her papers on assortative mating in China has been accepted by RSSM and will be published in one to two months. Two of her translated books on social science methodology have been published in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Her working paper on intermarriage in Hong Kong got the travel award in PAA 2015 meeting, and also her working paper on Chinese fertility policy got the poster winner prize in PAA 2016 meeting.
