讲座题目：Unpacking Childlessness in Hong Kong: Education, Temporal Trends, and Immigrant Dynamics

讲座时间：2025年5月7日（星期三）10:00-12:00

讲座地点：西安交通大学（兴庆校区）文管大楼674会议室

讲座嘉宾：香港中文大学同钰莹教授

主 持 人：西安交大公管学院人口与发展研究所所长杨雪燕教授

讲座简介：Hong Kong has experienced persistently low fertility rates for decades, marked by a uniquely high rate of childlessness. This study investigates the relationship between education and childlessness in Hong Kong, alongside its temporal trends, using a cross-classified multilevel age-period-cohort model. Theories have been drawn from culture diffusion, deinstitutionalization, and structure constraint. The findings reveal a positive association between higher education levels and childlessness, with significant period and cohort effects that underscore the dynamic nature of this relationship. Analysis of married women highlights an education convergence trend in childlessness among local-born residents, particularly from 2016 to 2021, followed by permanent immigrants. In contrast, temporary immigrants show no convergence or divergence trends across education levels. Cohort analysis indicates increasing childlessness among those born in the 1960s and 1970s, potentially shaped by major socio-economic disruptions, such as the Asian financial crises and pandemics around the turn of the century. Notably, permanent immigrants exhibit the lowest rates of childlessness, reflecting differences in childbearing behaviors between immigrants and locals. These findings illuminate the diffusion of childlessness across educational groups and the varying impacts of socio-economic factors on different demographic and immigrant groups in Hong Kong.

讲座嘉宾简介：同钰莹，香港中文大学社会科学学院助理院长、社会学系教授，西安交通大学客座教授，西安交通大学-香港中文大学人口迁移联合研究中心港方主任。她先后获得中国人民大学人口学学士、硕士学位，美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校硕士、博士学位。她的研究领域包括社会人口学、人口迁移与流动、家庭与生命历程、社会性别、人口健康与福祉等。

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