How does Robot Use Affect Women's Fertility Intention?
Maintaining a moderate population size and fertility level is a key measure for high-quality population development to sup-port Chinese-style modernization.As a key driving force for high-quality economic development,emerging technological change has attracted wide attention on its impact on fertility concepts.This paper uses a theoretical model to clarify the internal logic of robot use affecting female fertility intention,and comprehensively uses the robot installation data published by the International Federation of Robotics(IFR)and the 2018 Family Tracking survey data(CFPS2018)for empirical test.It is found that(1)the use of robots reduc-es female fertility intention,and this conclusion is still valid after the robustness test using dual machine learning,two-way fixed ef-fect model,etc.,and the use of instrumental variables to deal with endogenous problems;(2)The mechanism by which robot use re-duces female fertility intention is the bargaining position effect;(3)The use of robots has a greater inhibitory effect on female repro-ductive intention in employment sectors outside the system,areas with high labor costs,and families strongly influenced by clan cul-ture;(4)Emerging technological changes represented by robots have changed family fertility preferences,indicating that the use of ro-bots can help alleviate the gender imbalance.At the same time,the use of robots also impacts women's concept of"gender role"and improves women's autonomy in reproductive decision-making.The conclusions of this paper deepen the existing research under-standing of how the emerging technological revolution affects fertility,and provide an important reference for maintaining appropriate fertility levels and population size and resolving gender imbalance in the context of Chinese-style modernization.
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