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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
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zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causes of this gender imbalance. Our analysis suggests that a key … gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in …
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This paper provides new evidence supporting that gender differences in post-graduate educational choices contribute to …
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This paper studies the effects of non-market outside options on measures of female job mobility using a hand-collected data set of 3,041 MBA resumes. Specifically, I examine two aspects of the household: spousal assets and children. In order to proxy for these unobserved household...
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Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of … factors: China's control and management of the Delta variant, China's new "dual circulation" development paradigm, and a pent …
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