biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian countries, China in particular, have high hepatitis B carrier rates, Oster (2005 … explain skewed sex ratios in China …

accounted for roughly half of the increase in sex ratios in rural China from 1978-86, or about 1 million missing girls …

.57 centimeters greater height, complete 0.22 more grades of schooling, and live in households that score 0.12 standard deviations … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …