We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …

gender and needs commensurate interventions. …

for females. -- labour ; education ; gender ; bargaining …

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …

Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … married women with similar education levels. Controlling for gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning … children. This study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the …

cooperation. -- Gender ; cohabitation ; marriage ; divorce ; alimony ; matrimonial property ; fertility ; division of labour …