within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male …

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …

examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … in China and 15 percentage points in India. This impact has fallen over time in both countries as firm concentration in …

' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …

. By contrast, China has almost no missing unmarried women. We show that 70% of missing unmarried women are of reproductive … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian countries, China in particular, have high hepatitis B carrier rates, Oster (2005 …) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …