Parental early-life exposure to land reform and household investment in children’s education
研究父母在儿童或青少年时期经历家庭联产承包责任制改革的时长如何影响其对子女教育的投资，发现投资在13-14年时达到峰值，且通过收入、人力资本和公共福利等渠道发挥作用。
We examine the intergenerational relationship between the early-life exposure of parents to China’s Household Responsibility System (HRS) reform, which assigned collective-owned farmland to individual households, and investment in their children’s education. We find that an increase in the length of exposure of parents to the HRS reform when they were children or adolescents increases the extent to which they invest in their children’s education, although there is some evidence of non-linearities with investment peaking at 13–14 years of exposure to the HRS. We find that parental income and wealth, parental human capital and the improvement in public benefits that stem from land reform are channels through which parental early-life reform exposure affects expenditure on their children’s education. We also find considerable heterogeneity in the relationship across subsamples of individuals. Specifically, we find that education investment in children in junior high and senior high schools and children in the eastern region benefit more from parents’ early-life exposure to the HRS.