-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … with higher health risks …

if the child gender directly affect the outcome variable other than changing the number of children, the exclusion … China's One Child Policy. Applying to the children's effects on parental migration decision, we find that the addition of …Previous studies usually use child gender-related variables as instruments for fertility choices in households. However …

human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of schooling … probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts that school age girls will migrate with their parents-a difference that is … absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the …