In this paper, we use the China Education Tracking Survey (CEPS) 2014-2015 school year tracking data to study the intra-household educational resource allocation pattern by summarizing parents' investment in their children's educational resources as economic investment and educational participation. The results show that having siblings reduces an individual's access to educational resources for both financial inputs and educational participation. And when explaining semester economic inputs, this dilution shows significant gender differences, with a greater impact on individual women.

Resource dilution theory, number of siblings, access to education, gender discrimination

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Description: Large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal survey starting with the 7th and 9th graders in the 2013-2014 academic year, aiming at explaining the linkages between individuals' educational outcomes and multiple contexts of families, school processes, communities and social structure, and further studying the effects of educational outcomes during people's life course.