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主题： Parental Absence in Childhood and Migrants' Crime: Evidence from an Individual Prisoner Data in China
主讲人：张丹丹 北京大学国家发展研究院助理教授
主持人：周晔馨 北京师范大学经济与资源管理研究院副教授
时间：2018年12月27日（星期四）12:00-13:30
地点：后主楼1710会议室
主讲人介绍：
张丹丹，北京大学国家发展研究院助理教授，澳大利亚国立大学经济学博士。研究主题集中于中国的劳动力市场，包括城乡移民的社会和经济后果、流动人口与犯罪、留守儿童问题、教育不平等、工资差距和性别问题等。近年来，她深入探究流动人口犯罪的决定因素和社会后果，针对监狱服刑人员开展了行为实验和调查。研究成果见于Economic Journal, Review of Income and Wealth 以及 《经济学（季刊）》等期刊。
内容提要:
Economic transition, along with sheer scale of rural-to-urban migration, has induced dramatic changes in Chinese family structure over the past three decades. A large cohort of migrant children became left-behind in rural villages, and their experience in growing up without parental care brought about important social issues. This paper examines whether parental absence in childhood is associated with migrants’ criminality in China, by using a unique survey and experimental data on prison inmates and their comparable non-inmates. We find that parental absence in childhood will increase the propensity of a male to commit crimes, although different reasons (i.e., left-behind or other reasons) for parental absence may drive criminality through different channels. Generally, being left-behind arouses risk-loving behaviors and deteriorates moral values, while parental absence due to other reasons reduces opportunity for education and thus forms poor personality. In addition, we also find that fathers’ absence is more likely to induce son’s crime activities, while mothers’ absence may impose an impact through reducing education attainment. These findings provide useful insights for policy making to alleviate social costs related to the rural-to-urban migration.
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