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Husband's Domestic Work Participation and Female Fertility: Empirical Research based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)

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DOI: 10.23977/jsoce.2022.040602 | Downloads: 11 | Views: 651

Author(s)

Jiaxin Guo 1, Feng Yang 1

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1 School of University of Jinan, Jinan 250002, China

Corresponding Author

Jiaxin Guo

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the national total birth rate has been maintained at a low level, and the micro-level individual and family characteristics have increasingly become the main reason for determining the fertility of Chinese women. This paper will use the data of China National Comprehensive Social Science Research Center (CGSS) in 2017 to study the relationship between husband's domestic labor participation and women's reproductive behavior by negative binomial regression. The study found that the husband's domestic labor participation is closely related to women's reproductive behavior.

KEYWORDS

Low fertility level, division of household labor, gender relations in the family

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Jiaxin Guo, Feng Yang, Husband's Domestic Work Participation and Female Fertility: Empirical Research based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 5-11. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040602.

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