Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2007
Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This … paper examines whether the two are causally linked. High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been … the period 1988-2004, we show that a 0.01 increase in the sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3 …