permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex …-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force … presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … any person aged 75 or older) significantly increases prime-age urban women's likelihood of participating in market work …

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force … presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … any person aged 75 or older) significantly increases prime-age urban women's likelihood of participating in market work …

The cotton revolution (1300-1840 AD) in imperial China constituted a substantial shock to the value of women's work … negative relationship between high-value work opportunities for women in the past and sex ratio at birth in 2000. To overcome … premodern cotton textile production permanently changed cultural beliefs about women's worth, and that its effects have …

This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in … power. This paper provides the first empirical evidence showing that demographic imbalance causes marriage distortion with …