Despite social scientists' long-standing interest in the influences of siblings, previous
research has not settled the debates on how relevant sibship size is to child development …

A growing number of children are being raised with few or no siblings yet the consequences
of this seismic demographic shift in family forms are not well understood. We investigate this …

In the context of China's three-child policy, more and more families have been changing
from a one-child family to a two-child or three-child family. Both changes of family structure …

Despite the vast literature on the sibling effects on child educational outcomes, less is known
about how sibling gender structure relates to intrahousehold non-monetary resource …

Research Findings: As China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy, the present study
examined how family socioeconomic status was linked to preschoolers' self-regulated …

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes,
there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects …

Urban-rural economic opportunity gaps drive rural youth to seek economic stability by
migrating away from home and family. The links between educational attainment and …

Urbanization in China has accelerated since its reform and opening policy in 1978. The
driving forces of the movement from rural areas to cities in current literature include job …

The discussion of inequality has been an enduring topic in sociology and economics. With
the intensification of inequality, an increasing amount of research has begun to focus on the …

家庭教育投资是影响子女教育获得的直接原因, 家庭对不同性别子女投资的差异是造成教育性别
差异的重要机制. 以往针对教育投资的研究主要探讨家庭间的投资差异, 对家庭内部不同性别 …