-the People's Republic of China and cross-country empirical evidence to support the theory. As an application, our cross …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … married women with similar education levels. Controlling for gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning … children. This study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the …