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 …

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 …

Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the …. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage competition remains a first-order effect on saving, when another margin of … adjustment to sex ratio imbalance, men's postponement of marriage, is considered. We construct a theoretical and quantitative …

marriage. Simultaneity problems common to the literature are overcome by using dowry to proxy for bargaining position. Omitted … variable bias is addressed by using grain shocks in the year preceding marriage and sibling sex composition as instruments for …

, mothers’ higher childcare costs from raising additional children and employers’ discrimination against fertile women …

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 …

marriage. Simultaneity problems common to the literature are overcome by using dowry to proxy for bargaining position. Omitted … variable bias is addressed by using grain shocks in the year preceding marriage and sibling sex composition as instruments for …