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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in … brideprice payments. The identification relies on comparison between siblings from the same natal family who are born in … power. This paper provides the first empirical evidence showing that demographic imbalance causes marriage distortion with …

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 …