and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …