职业发展与生育意愿OACHSSCD

Using the data of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)in 2020,this paper constructs a regression model to explore the causal relationship between career development and workers' fertility intention and its influencing mechanism.The results show that:(1)the hindered career development of workers will significantly reduce their fertility intention;(2)Blocked career development will prolong workers' working hours,further unbalance their"family-work"time allocation,reduce workers' confidence in the future,have a negative impact on their marriage relationship,and then lead to a decline in workers' fertility intention;(3)Heterogeneity analysis indicates that limited career advancement primarily reduces the fertility intentions of male and low-education workers.It has no impact on the fertility intentions of female and high-education workers.Furthermore,limited career advancement weakens workers' preference for having a son.This paper enriches the theoretical research on career development and workers' fertility intention.