讲座主题：Mother matters: The causal impact of parental education on children’s educational investment in China

主讲嘉宾：陈媛媛 上海财经大学高等研究院教授

讲座时间：2023年11月3日 10:00-13:00

讲座地点：沙河校区学院11号楼308会议室

嘉宾简介：陈媛媛，上海财经大学高等研究院教授、人口流动与劳动力市场研究中心主任、上海市杨浦区第十七届人大代表、民建市委委员、民建上海财经大学委员会主委。她长期深耕于我国城镇化过程中的劳动力流动及流动人口子女的教育问题。其团队自2008年起就开始对上海20所公办和民办农民工子弟小学四至五年级学生进行大型的实地调查，并进行持续跟踪，建立了上海市流动儿童教育情况数据库。陈媛媛老师通过编写著作《城市的未来-流动儿童教育的上海模式》，编著《为了明天——中国教育制度改革》，并在《光明日报》《财经》《财新》《澎湃》等主流媒体发表多篇流动儿童教育问题的研究报告，呼吁教育公平。除此，自2010年以来，陈媛媛老师及其团队共举办了九届《城市的未来：外来儿童教育政策研讨会暨校长论坛》。

内容摘要：We use the college enrollment expansion in China beginning in 1999 to estimate the causal effect of parental education on educational investment in children. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, we find that mothers’ schooling significantly increases out-of-school educational spending on children, and children's attendance of tutorial classes, as well as non-monetary investment such as mother's hours in tutoring children, while there's no such causal effect from fathers’ schooling. We have verified a few channels through which parental education affects investment, such as family resources, bargaining power, and parenting style. A potential explanation for the divergent impacts observed between maternal and paternal education is that educational reforms amplify mothers’ bargaining power within the household, consequently leading to increased expenditure on children.