This paper analyzes how relative housing wealth affects labor supply. Using China's great housing boom as a natural experiment, we examine this empirical question and find that an appreciation in relative housing wealth significantly reduces the average working hours. We also find that this...

This paper investigates the impact of birth spacing on female labor market participation in urban China. Employing household panel surveys between 1989 and 2011 and exploiting variations in time intervals between the first and second child, we find that spacing births at longer intervals...