The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other … new competitive saving motive: As the sex ratio rises, Chinese parents with a son raise their savings in a competitive …

of Korea, where, as in the People's Republic of China, the groom's side has to bear a disproportionate share of marriage … rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the premarital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males …, where the bride's side has to pay substantial dowries to the groom's side at marriage, but a positive impact in the Republic …