2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
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14F04311
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
松繁 寿和 大阪大学, 国際公共政策研究科, 教授 (50219424)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
Vu Manh Tien 大阪大学, 国際公共政策研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-25 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | Gender / Sibling Order / Education Quantity / Education Quality / Home appliances / Gender Gap / Time Use / Housework Division |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We had the paper entitled “Gender, Sibling Order, and Differences in the Quantity and Quality of Education: Evidence from Japanese Twins” accepted for publication at the Asian Economic Journal in February 2016. The paper is now in-press.
We completed another paper entitled “Home appliances and gender gap of time spent on unpaid housework: Evidence using household data from Vietnam”. We examined the gender gap between wives and husbands with regard to time spent on unpaid housework and the interaction terms between the appearance of home appliances and gender among 36,480 Vietnamese households. We found the gender gap is persistent regardless of the number of co-residing children, age cohorts, household size and income, and working status of the couples. In household fixed-effect estimations, the gender gap of time increased with the appearance of home appliances such as gas cookers. One of the main reasons is the reduction in the probability of men participating in housework tasks related to home appliances.
We made presentations of the two above topics in three international academic conferences.
We gathered previous studies on private tutoring (extra class) of the children. This will be the input for the next topic on the connection between parents’ investments and the disadvantage children.
We also prepared a household data of Vietnam for doing analysis by integrating the data from questionnaires on grade duplications, on education expenses, on disabilities and data having information of the household where the individual was residing.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Our paper was accepted for a publication at the Asian Economic Journal. We had a new discussion paper.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We will present the topic “Home appliances and gender gap of time spent on unpaid housework: Evidence using household data from Vietnam” as an oral presentation at the Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association Conference in Hong Kong (China) in July 2016. In the meantime, we will revise this work based on previous comments and suggestions before submitting to international academic journal.
We will adjust the remaining topics of the theme accordingly to the availability of the information given by household dataset. The latest tentative topic title can be “For the worst or the best child? Evidence from parental investment on children’s private tutoring in Vietnam”.
We will apply for the usage of the Young Lives, an International Study of Childhood Poverty from the Oxford University. The panel data contain children’s important life events, parental investment, academic records and performance, which might enable us to do other topics on intra-household resource allocation, especially on human capital development.
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